Kubo and the Two Strings and the Loose Threads
Mumble, mumble forgiveness pass the nori.
Author Archives: Evil Genius
The Salesman Cannot Come to Your Door
This is Farhadi’s special genius. He invites you into lives unfamiliar only to spin around the mirror in the last moments so you can see your own surprised face.
Your Noir City 15 Cheat Sheet
In this, its 15th iteration, Noir City shifts from showing obscure and long-lost noirs in order to focus on all sorts of heist films — many of them more modern but no less obscure.
If Only La La Land
Know both the electric excitement of what might have been and the solemn beauty of what is.
Arrival Breaks Your Heart for Good
Not in the ‘for eternity’ sense, but in the ‘for the best’ sense
Twenty-Seven Sentences About Eight Films
I have been watching things and having thoughts. Sometimes simultaneously. Please allow me to demonstrate.
The Shallows Isn’t Deep, but It Does Have Bite
If you’ve decided to watch a film about Blake Lively fighting off a giant shark, there’s little to be disappointed with herein.
Love & Friendship Is Very Yes
While it would be easy to attribute this and much of the credit for Love & Friendship’s success to the source material, doing so would not be fair.
Boy and the World Blows Your Mind, Breaks Your Heart
This is the world we have made.
Sahara: A Movie That Exists
Do you like long walks on the beach and a nice glass of merlot on rainswept evenings when the only one who could possibly save the world is Matthew McConaughey? If so, let’s Netflix and chill.
Train to Busan: On the Korean Zombie Express
Train to Busan is a pleasant night out featuring the infected trying to eat a) your face, b) your daughter, and c) most of a baseball team.
Buzzkill! (Or: What I’d Call My Remake of the Fly-Revenge Film Eega)
It is a story, told to a child, about a vengeful insect and the woman who loves him.
In Order of Disappearance Makes a Faint Impression
I suppose if you’re the sort of person who finds revenge fun, or who enjoys watching violence without most of the actual violence or any of the consequence, this could be the film for you.
Embrace of the Serpent and Other Critical Darlings
Every year there needs to be Best Films and buzz and pieces of cinema to enthuse over. This year Embrace of the Serpent was one of them.