Below Her Mouth, directed by April Mullen and written by Stephanie Fabrizi, is a bad film. And, by virtue of it interrupting its best sex scene through a plot point as weakly written as the rest of it, it’s barely passable as the porno it wants to be. The film opens on Dallas (played by Erika Linder, […]
Low-Budget Disaster Drama Meets High School Comedy in Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea begins as any number of high school films and TV shows does: with two weirdos on a school bus, on their way to the first day of a new school year, talking about how things are going to be different. This year, people will like Dash because […]
Dueling Auteurs: Kong: Skull Island vs Godzilla
Because we’re geeks, we frequently find it’s easier to understand an artist’s work when comparing them to another artist, finding out the common or antithetical traits that bind them. Hence Dueling Auteurs, a column where we take two auteurs from any medium and compare and contrast them. This month, we pit Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ new Kong: Skull Island […]
The Brand New Testament Is A Surreal, Inventive Take On Mortality And God
The Brand New Testament, as its premise, poses a question everyone has pondered: What would you do with the rest of your life, if you knew exactly when it was going to end? Would you continue as normal or drop everything to live exactly as you’ve always wanted? The film considers this question in the […]
My Life as a Zucchini is an Uncynical Take on the Orphanage Story
My Life as a Zucchini looks like a children’s movie. The stop-motion film features characters, mostly children, with big heads and long limbs, round eyes and mouths, and oddly-colored hair. The title character looks vaguely like he came out of one of Tim Burton’s later attempts at an animated film, with blue hair and odd, […]
20th Century Women is A Masterful Examination of Women Overcoming Society’s Inability to Listen
Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women is by no means a sad movie, but I am struggling to think of any other recent film that had as devastating of an impact on me. Much of that is due to Annette Bening’s exceptionally thoughtful portrayal of a brilliant, independent woman who reminded me so much of my own mother, […]
Go North is Less a Film Than an Empty Recreation of Better Works
It is not enough to merely be influenced by a work of art; an artist must find a way to incorporate this work and its impact on themselves into their own artistic statement. Without that, an audience is left with someone’s regurgitation of an 8th grade English assignment. The press release for the new film […]
Dueling Auteurs: Michael Mann’s Heat and Ben Affleck’s The Town
Though he has been embraced by the arthouse contingent for decades, Michael Mann nonetheless stands out as one of the most quoted directors in the tough guy cinema pantheon– bros dig Mann’s emphasis on style over substance, his knack for tense back-and-forth monologuing between rivals and enemies, his extreme eye for cool crime details, his […]
Girls Lost is Alexandra-Therese Keining’s Ode to Magical Realism
Girls Lost opens slowly, taking time first to establish the motifs and vibe that drive the film, before we meet any of the characters or setting. Its dreamy opening sequence emphasizes transformative imagery — water, fire, masks, growing things — on top of the kind of synth track that’s everywhere in indie cinema right now. […]
Counter Clockwise’s Ending Takes it From Mediocre to Hateful Garbage
The worst thing a movie can do is leave you unmoved. If you’re not going to be good, you can at least be memorable. For the majority of its runtime, George Moïse’s directorial debut Counter Clockwise is little else than a forgettable thriller with a sci-fi twist. That is until the last five or so minutes […]
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