Filmmaker Julia Ducournau Takes us on one Unrelentingly Disturbingly Unique but Ultimately Heartfelt Ride
DIRECTED BY JULIA DUCOURNAU/FRENCH/2021
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According to my Letterboxd page, I watched over 250 horror films this year. Almost 125 of those were new movies. Out of those, here are my top 10 ho...
reset and needed to tie back into the first and that the sequels are all "inferior"- a direct quote from characters talking about the thinly-veiled Stab sequels. Progressiveness was always at the forefront of this property, not a need to Make Scream Great Again, and take the franchise and give it the same treatment as sputtering franchises that need these rebootquels. This feels like it was made by the kind of movie watcher who always says without much thought that "the first is always the best" and "the book is always better", when that is not always the case.
Censor is, at its heart, a very anti-censorship movie. Bailey-Bond makes it clear that the censors are the weak, and as for any problems with violent films and their approach to women, Bailey-Bond seems to know the answer isn't to censor, but rather, more women like her getting behind a camera and making more movies like Censor.
Ultimately, you don't have to care about the royals to care about Spencer. This is just intoxicating filmmaking, masterful acting, and a Jonny Greenwood score that should be awarded on Oscar night.
The Newest Entry in a Franchise That Should be Forever Locked Away in a Ghost Trap.
DIRECTED BY JASON REITMAN/2021
RIP nostalgia. We've had a good ru...
Man-made Monsters Dominate our Lowly Quest for Old-School Ghouls!
Most any surveillance of slowly rotting bona fide film critic culture will observe a d...
The beginning of Halloween Kills feels like the final nail in the retcon of the original Myers sequels... what you have is something designed to kill and becoming stronger because a divided community is destined to argue with each other instead of coming together. Sound familiar?
An Empathetic Look At Influencer Culture
DIRECTED BY MAGNUS VON HORN/POLISH, ENGLISH/2020
At the risk of sounding like a boomer, or Gen X, which I a...
Paul has written about politics and baseball for other outlets in the past. Besides cinema, he cites baseball, music and fitness as other key passions in his life. His reviews are humorous and sometimes cutting, aiming to get at central themes of any given movie. For him, the value of film lies in the way the art form can use plot, vision and sound to create stories of flawed, relatable people that are riveting and allegories for deeper things.
