Warning: Spoilers for Blade Runner: 2049 below. Blade Runner 2049 is, above all, a film of images. Bold. Brash. Breathtaking. Harrowing. The original 1982 Ridley Scott film set itself in a dystopian, retrofitted Los Angeles that was equal parts cyberpunk and lurid…
Movie Review: Bending the Arc
If there’s one thing I’ll remember from Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos’ Bending the Arc, it’s the enormity and shocking normalcy of economic racism towards the Third World. That may seem an odd observation for a film about a trio…
Best Decades in Horror: The 1930’s
Throughout the month of October we’ll be looking at the best decades that the horror genre had to offer, and how they influenced future filmmakers and movie goers alike. We remember the 1930s less for its films than for its…
Movie Review: The Square
The Square is a film about a social experiment which is, in its own odd way, itself a social experiment. Said experiment asks if a panel of Cannes jurists can overlook a film’s glaring structural problems, general listlessness, uneven tone,…
Movie Review: Les Affamés
I hope you’ll give me credit for not beginning this review with an “off to the races” joke, seeing as how Robin Aubert’s zombie film Les Affamés abruptly opens with a woman getting her jugular torn out at a racetrack.…
Movie Review: Unrest
For a time, Jennifer Brea had a near-perfect life. At 25 years old she was a PhD student at Princeton and married to the man of her dreams, internet analyst and social networking pioneer Omar Wasow. But then the sickness…
Movie Review: Elizabeth Blue
As someone who’s struggled with and been institutionalized for mental illness, I can say with some authority that the most infuriating part Vincent Sabella’s Elizabeth Blue is how much it gets right. When the film opens, we see Elizabeth (Anna…
