Tag: film
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Hundreds of Beavers
Sometimes you may watch a film that is a work of art. A deep sea of metaphor and symbolism. A replication of the human experience. Kino. And Hundreds of Beavers is such a film. It is the story of Jean Kayak, an applejack maker who likes far too much of his own product. Everything is…
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Blade Runner 2049
There is a serious question about automation that disquiets us. If robots replace humans, how does this change us, the humans and our society? There’s an upside, certainly; humans no longer work terrible jobs that robots now ceaselessly toil over. The downside, a variable quantity of humans no longer paid or occupied by the terrible…
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Valerian and the Blah Blah Blah
Let me get straight to the meat of this review. The main problem with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is that there is far too little of the City of a Thousand Planets. In fact, it should have been called Valerian and Laureline. Because that’s what the film really focused on. In…
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Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Going to the live action, western adaptation of Ghost In The Shell, had my expectations set so low, that within the first five minutes of the film, all I could be was disappointed. I was armed to the teeth with arguments about failing to live up to the original manga and the 1995 anime, when…
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Holga
Months ago, I realised that I had a Holga camera with some film in it. Odds are the Ilford XP2 film had already expired. But I decided to take the camera to work and take photos of the city to fill out the roll. And these are the results.
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Best and Worst 2014
So, I think I need to recap a couple of things that happened through the year, mostly because I didn’t find the time to write about them in the moment. Best Film Frank Frank is about a band, whose front man constantly wears a papier-mâché mask. Given this cartoonish appearance, Frank is also a muse…
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Lucy
Once again, my friend Mark and I trapse down to the cinema, at my suggestion, to check out Lucy, the new Luc Besson “Philosophical Thriller” at where the eponymous Lucy, played by Scarlett Johannson, gains access to “more then 10 percent of her brain”. Just read that link, cause it’s a popular myth. But when…
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Videodrome
I just finished watching Videodrome (for the third time), and it is one of my favourite movies. Max Renn is an executive at a small cable television station. While attempting to find new material to titillate his viewers, he encounters a show called ‘Videodrome’ And as the movie poster says, “First it controls your mind.…
The Screaming Wall 