Hey gang! So, next week I kick off my new column, I Would Like to See It, where every week I watch a new-to-me movie and write about it on here.
For those who would like to wat...
2020-12-27 23:24:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In December of 2003, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens’ Return of the King—the third and final film in their trilogy adapting J. R. R. Tolkien’s beloved fantasy epic
In the opening voiceover to Billy Wilder’s 1960 Christmas movie The Apartment, C. C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) explains that shifts in his insurance company’s vast NYC headquarters are stag...
2020-12-24 21:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
There have been a hundred parodies of Sylvester Stallone’s mush-mouthed delivery of John Rambo’s final monologue in First Blood. The actor’s huge, haunted eyes and phlegmy sobbing ar...
2020-12-20 03:16:45 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s hard to believe Rhymes for Young Ghouls is director Jeff Barnaby’s first feature-length movie. It has its flaws — jumpy pacing, a few awkward cuts, an animated sequence that det...
2020-12-17 05:32:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In a few short minutes and with no more than a pinch of fog-assisted CGI, The Terror’s eighth episode stages an action sequence more exciting, immediate, and emotionally intense...
2020-12-14 00:45:34 +0000 UTC View Post
John Carpenter’s Halloween typically receives the nod as the first proper slasher, but Black Christmas — Bob Clark and A. Roy Moore’s spare, mean-spirited tale of a so...
2020-12-06 03:02:51 +0000 UTC View PostPROMPTS
A pretty Martian girl with a big dumptruck ass
- trying to score weed before lockdown hits
Datura infused astral journey gone HORRIBLY wrong
a snake and a mongoose w...
2020-11-30 20:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Juggling overlapping and technically oriented action scenes at the climax of a movie is no mean feat, but Tony Gilroy manages to take a final battle revolving around landline access, a broadcast to...
2020-11-27 20:41:41 +0000 UTC View Post
In the first episode of David Kajganich’s The Terror, the British Discovery Service’s Franklin expedition attempts to dynamite its way through the Arctic ice pack and into the Pacific....
2020-11-25 23:13:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Noroi: The Curse, Kōji Shiraishi’s 2005 pseudo-documentary, is one of only a small handful of films to use its chosen genre to the fullest extent. Along with The Blair Witch Project...
2020-11-24 02:48:57 +0000 UTC View Post
As the stoic swordmaster Hirayama in Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins, Tsuyoshi Ihara moves like a force of nature, his sinewy arms swinging his sword with irresistible strength. Even the Fo...
2020-11-13 20:16:17 +0000 UTC View Post
First Love is like if Snatch had a tender little love story in the middle of its high-speed blender of colliding criminal mishaps. It also has the advantage of being written and d...
2020-11-11 21:16:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Moira Walley-Beckett’s Flesh and Bone isn’t what I’d call a good TV show. The pacing is jumbled, the plot both absurdly grimy and off-puttingly precious, and the characters often rep...
2020-11-09 22:24:50 +0000 UTC View PostNYMPHS
Krine, alone among the hidden people, was born with her wings formed. In her first memory she tastes the fear of the onlooking swarm. She hears the voices saying she will die, that her...
2020-11-09 00:38:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The Loved Ones, an out-of-nowhere Australian abduction flick from the otherwise deeply mediocre Sean Byrne, is plenty grisly. Power drills, razor blades, syringes full of bleach and boilin...
2020-11-08 19:32:25 +0000 UTC View Post
As a child I used to lie in bed at night and beg God to change my body, to remake me into anything but what I was. As I grew older and abandoned God, those pleas took on a formless, aching desperat...
2020-11-08 18:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Just before psychic assassin Tasya Vos seizes control over the body of Colin Tate, one of the technicians operating the machinery which connects her to Tate’s mind tells her it might be “a litt...
2020-11-06 03:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post
There comes a point somewhere toward the middle of In the Realm of the Senses, Nagisa Ōshima’s fictionalization of the real-life story of lovers Sada Abe and Kichizo Ishida, when the ac...
2020-10-30 20:21:26 +0000 UTC View Post
"Papa, if your happiness depends on wearing the cap of a court official, then I will go to his majesty as you wish, and after you have put on that cap as part of the court, I will kill myself." Chl...
2020-10-24 19:44:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor Guido Mannari has a single fleeting scene in which to transform the infamous ‘Wall of Death’, the most outrageous image in a film famous for little else, from banally demented fantasy to ...
2020-10-18 23:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s something profoundly moving in the way Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) kneels at his bedside to say his evening prayers in Robin Hardy’s cult classic horror movie The Wicker M...
2020-10-11 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNeil Marshall’s The Descent is a straightforward act of symbolic transubstantiation, transforming protagonist Sarah’s trauma over the loss of her husband and daughter into the fathomle...
2020-10-10 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Like a cunt, a wound has lips. In many ways this statement encompasses the totality of David Cronenberg’s almost unbearably sensual Crash, a movie which literalizes the psychological con...
2020-10-09 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Director Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad, driven almost entirely by the stark, enigmatic visions of cinematographer Sacha Vierny and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s minimalistically ellipt...
2020-10-08 15:22:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Powdered hemp cutting into soft, bruised flesh. Jax tries to hook a finger between rope and skin and finds there isn’t room. It excites them, knowing that she’s grown since last ti...
2020-09-29 17:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostYou Love to See It will return next week with a triple-header! For now I am grinding out Manhunt as fast as is humanly possible.
-G
2020-09-27 16:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
EDIT: A housekeeper, I have been informed, is always called "Mrs" whether or not she's married.
“I'd stand behind her,” Mrs. Danvers whispers, her normally glacial features alight w...
2020-09-11 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostShe tires so easily now. The stump of her left hinder twitches sometimes, phantom sensation crawling up and down its absent length, and often her gnawed and ruined wings beat madly of their own vol...
2020-09-11 00:02:31 +0000 UTC View Post