cinema
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I’ve admired Lon Chaney Jr. ever since watching the Wolf Man from 1941. He had such a presence and almost effortless ability to be charming, which still holds strongly in his role as Bruno in Jack Hill’s 1967 Spider Baby. I was damn-pleasantly surprised seeing him again channel a sense of warmth as the caretaker of three adult children of Read more
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What really pisses me off about ROSEMARY’S BABY is this woman’s lack of instinct. Naivety strips her of any potential in kicking ass over her abusers. She’s trusting, loyal, submissive, accommodating of everyone’s needs before herself only to realize she’s a victim plagued by an unruly bunch of soulless creeps. What starts off as a Read more
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“You can’t have dialogue without fear of judgement these days.” The statement above certainly enforces the notion we’re living in some agitated state of an Orwellian nightmare; constant agitation, constant scrutinization, constant tracking, constant manipulation, constant painstaking marketable propaganda soaked in revenue stressors. Of course society is having a meltdown as every man, woman, Read more
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After about a week of mulling over THE SHAPE OF WATER, directed by the notorious monster-loving Guillermo del Toro, I’ve come to the conclusion that I really enjoyed this film. And after reading numerous mixed reviews and I really wasn’t sure where I was going to land on this. You see there’s a tiny inkling Read more
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When I read about French, filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s RAW last year, I intrinsically knew it be something I’d find fascinating to study. Mind you, I’m still studying it. It’s disgusting, grotesque, where all the horror lies within the flesh, blood, hair, flakey skin, eyeballs, basically your whole anatomy making it narrowly bearable. Its controversy is Read more
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Steve McQueen’s HUNGER (2008) is a powerful, meditative work of art peering into the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze Prison spearheaded by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). What’s so extraordinary yet painfully captivating about this film is the explicit images McQueen drives into the heart of the narrative. Aside from the 17-minute-long dialogue between Read more
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SHADOWS (1959) directed by John Cassavetes is purely a film about people. People struggling as artists all of which are three siblings of African-American decent; Benny (Ben Carruthers), is a wandering beatnik, Lelia (Lelia Goldoni), the little sister trying to find her creative vein and Hugh (Hugh Hurd), the older brother who’s a jazz singer. Read more
MARISSA THE CINEPHILE 