Renfield Nicolas Cage in “Renfield” as Dracula is just as delightfully, deliciously over the top as you would want him to be. Cage, after years of figuratively chewing the scenery, gets to do it literally as the preening Prince of Darkness. His wild eyed delivery is filled with sudden bursts and odd inflections, along with […]
Dead Men I know, I know. From all the essays in this Jarmusch retrospective, this is the one that is likely to get me in trouble. Dead Man is a film loved by many. It is widely regarded as one of the finest and quintessential Westerns ever conceived, and is indeed thought as one of
Sometimes I Think About Dying In “Sometimes I Think About Dying,” Fran (Daisy Ridley) doesn’t say a word until 22 minutes in. Not one word. What she does say is, to an extreme, matter of fact “I’m Fran. I like cottage cheese.” There’s no why behind it, she’s at an office meeting where everyone has
Force Of Impact (Deadly Skies) In Washington D.C., an astronomer named Madison Taylor who works for the privately run Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Agency spots an asteroid on a collision cause to Earth. After which another investigation later determines there is actually a Texas-sized asteroid hiding behind it and it will hit the earth in
Cabrini In Alejandro Monteverde’s giant, old fashioned biopic about a great woman (overlong but still impressive), Francesca Cabrini (Cristiana Dell’Anna) has a confrontation with the mayor of New York City, whom she has finally won over after he spent most of the movie being villainous and sabotaging her work. He is drinking with her at
Lisa Frankenstein When was the last time there was a teen movie that felt timeless? Off the top of my head, I’d go with 2018 which gave us at least three (very different) instant classics in “The Hate U Give,” “Eighth Grade” and “Blockers.” Or maybe you could throw in 2019’s “Booksmart,” too. Either way,
Bunker: Project 12 Personally, I do not really care what IMDb rates such films but still, I believe some of the numbers do mean something, particularly regarding the feature-in question, Jaime Falero’s second feature and Vision Films’ newest embark, Bunker: Project 12. There are not many that stand out in the film circuit that are
Off Piste Jack in the Box films made a movie called OFF PISTE and they write on their Facebook page regarding it, “We are not really happy about the artwork that is given by the distributors”. Gilt Edge Media needn’t bother too much about that, but the cover they came up with is not a
Viking: The Berserkers How is it going to go? A bird does not have any raven. In the first stage where a young man’s heart is cut out and the camera is on it, the action cuts to a close shot of a window. Probably, the producers ran out of money for a raven, or
Good One The most important things in life are what happen between the words, but it’s difficult to achieve this in movies especially if those subterranean moments consist of small shifts of consciousness where the character (and thus the audience) knows nothing will be the same afterwards. A film camera can capture thought, and yet
