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A wonderfully elegiac, formally strange, and beautifully poetic tale of beginnings and endings led by an all-star cast, defined by the push and pull of either divine fate or random chance as it touches the lives of a constellation of broken families. A more-than-three-hour ensemble drama that all takes place over one night shouldn’t feel... The post Why It Rains Frogs In PTA’s ‘MAGNOLIA’ appeared…
It’s 1975 and oysters and lobster rolls are evidently considered fast food. Or perhaps still a thing of the future. During the summer break between semesters at Vassar College, a young Tony Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) finds himself chasing a girl (Emilia Jones) to Provincetown, Mass after failing to land the prestigious fellowship he’s already told... The post ‘TONY’ Cooks appeared first on Silver…
We open behind the scenes. A lingering first-person POV lumbers forward, breathing heavily. Then a murder from 100 yards away. Blood fountains like struck oil. Jane Schoenbrun’s disorientation is established within 60 seconds. Then clarity. Camp Miasma is a horror mainstay with a small army of VHS sequels, a riff on ’80s slashers like Friday... The post ‘TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA’ A…
For about five years now, the internet’s favorite armchair diagnosis has been “superhero fatigue.” We’re all familiar with the bit. Every underperforming cape movie gets the same postmortem: audiences are DONE, the genre is COOKED, the well is DRY, Kevin Feige should salt the earth and move onto greener pastures. We’ve all been writing the... The post ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ Proves That…
Before we’d exchanged more than a few words, Gregg Araki was already laughing. He spotted the blue “HO LIFE OR NO LIFE” hat I’d chosen for the interview and asked whether I had worn it specifically for him. “Of course,” I told him. Given the nature of I Want Your Sex, it felt appropriate. I... The post Gregg Araki on ‘I WANT YOUR SEX’, Prudish Youth, and How Sleeping Together Connects Us appeared…
Gregg Araki has never shown any particular interest in polite society so it’s fitting that I Want Your Sex concerns itself with all the things we’re generally taught not to discuss in public. Sex. Kink. Power. Submission. Humiliation. Violence. Rather than treating them as separate ideas, Araki suggests they’re often just different tones of the... The post ‘I WANT YOUR SEX’ Explores the Kinky…
With new powers come new responsibilities in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the first installment in Tom Holland’s web-slinging series not directed by Jon Watts or saddled with the word “Home” in its title. Picking up after Peter Parker willingly sacrificed his identity and everyone’s memory of him to save the world, this fourth Spidey-centered MCU... The post ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ Lets the…
Full disclosure: I walked out of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell around 40 minutes in. Here’s why I still feel compelled to tell you to avoid it: About thirty minutes into Her Private Hell , I made a deal with myself: if I felt the NEED to check my watch AGAIN before the clock... The post I Walked Out of Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘HER PRIVATE HELL’ appeared first on Silver Screen Riot .
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not the biggest Christopher Nolan disciple. His devotees across the internet are as vast as they are loud, but I’ve often found myself struggling to connect with his films for a fairly consistent reason. Nolan is a champion of process. More invigorated by the physical how than metaphysical.... The post Monsters, Myths, and Morality Stand Between a Hero and Home in…
Modern Evil Dead movies are a far cry from the tongue-in-cheek splattercore silliness of Sam Raimi’s original trilogy, but they’ve very much cemented their own legacy within the genre by pushing the boundaries of good taste and competing for the title of horror’s meanest franchise. With Evil Dead Burn, the sixth film in the series,... The post Horror’s Meanest Franchise Strikes Again with ‘EVIL…
