“Fire Island” suggests its homage-wielding hand early with a verbal and visible shout-out to Satisfaction and Prejudice. After a fast look at that novel, narrator Noah (Joel Kim Booster) quotes its writer, Jane Austen, then dismisses her traces as a heteronormative ode to marriage and monogamy. Noah has no time for any of that nonsense;…
Day: June 3, 2022
Dashcam
Your tolerance for braindead provocation will most likely decide how a lot you benefit from the live-stream discovered footage chiller “Dashcam,” an hour-plus-long horror film about an obnoxious web troll who will get chased around by a supernatural entity who sprays blood, feces, and urine. You would possibly admire the filmmakers’ dedication to being as…
Watcher
Julia (Maika Monroe) is aware that one thing is just not proper. “Watcher” One thing is absolutely, actually “off” concerning the man within the house constructing throughout the way in which, all the time observing her. However, when known to specify her emotions, Julia falters. She will be able to discover the phrases to specify…
Benediction
“Benediction” bears the distinctive stamp of its author/director, Terence Davies, a person whose movies really feel extra like poetic meditations on moods, feelings, and occasions than simple narratives. It’s as if we’re floating above the fabric, touching down somewhere else at the filmmaker’s discretion. Having a poet for a topic solely heightens that feeling; the…
The Phantom of the Open
“The Phantom of the Open” belongs to a really specific model of British comedy: twee, true tales of plucky underdogs undertaking outrageous acts towards the percentages. Suppose “Calendar Girls,” “Eddie the Eagle,” or “Military Wives.” The humorless naysayers of society doubt them and mock them to mask their very own insecurities, however, nonetheless, these true…
18 1/2
If “18 1/2” have been taken to a studio and pitched to a roomful of people with the flexibility to provide a movie with an inexperienced mild, their first query would rightly be, “Who is the audience for this?” The reply, judging from the completed product, is “the people involved in making it, and whoever…