Like my interest in films overall, my taste in horror films – one of my very favorite genres – also tends to be more cerebral, as I think my blurbs…
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(53) Onibaba (1964, Kaneto Shindō) Onibaba is one of the best exercises I’ve ever seen in understanding how humanity can be dominated by our baser selves. More pointedly, the filmmakers…
(38) The Substance (2024, Coralie Fargeat) I must say that after watching The Substance a second time, my view of it has changed a bit. Perhaps because I was more…
Full Length Blogs Coming: For the top tier of my list, I am just going to write short blurbs for now (or, well, relatively speaking since a couple of my…
So, for me, Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson) is just such a difficult film to reconcile. On the one hand, it is just such a powerful and…
Stanley Kubrick is one of my all time favorite filmmakers, right up there with Yasujiro Ozu, Charlie Chaplin, Luis Buñuel, Ken Loach, and Ingmar Bergman. I appreciate him so much because…
Though The Second Mother (2015, Anna Muylaert) is another deep and dark film, let me also emphasize that it also has some genuinely funny bits and the central character, Val,…
Jordan Peele’s film Nope is one of those confounding films, so full of rich signifiers and symbolisms and yet also Peele not obviously connecting all of them. After four plus…
45 Years (2015, Andrew Haigh) is one of those films that stayed with me long after I viewed it. What the film does so well is offer us an existential…
The Fool (2015, Yuri Bykov) is a perfect example of how didactic art can be a powerful form of expression. I’ve been preaching for decades that didacticism in art need…