I SAW THE TV GLOW is such a unique and powerful movie. Unique in its visuals and storytelling, powerful in its metaphor (which never hits you round the head). Two 1990s outsiders are obsessed with a show called The Pink Opaque where two teenage girls fight demons, but is there something more going on? I […]
Read more "What I’m Watching: I Saw The TV Glow"Lewis Saunderson is a new kind of actor. We’ve never seen his like before, not really. In all his TIkTok videos, and now Youtube videos, he creates scenes of utmost emotional torment, his eyes red and weeping and his face a rictus or misery and shock. In this vid below, a man has broken his […]
Read more "Lewis Saunderson, Actor For Our Times"‘Crash’ is quite a different movie in 2024. I hadn’t expected that when I sat down to watch it again. Like the ‘unfilmable’ book it’s based on, David Cronenberg’s movie caused outrage from both the political right and left. I always think art has hit pay dirt whenever that happens, drilled down to something deep. […]
Read more "What I Watched: ‘Crash’ (1996, David Cronenberg)"David Cameron’s favourite eighties movie, according to Amazon Prime’s trivia. However, I didn’t let the former prime minister’s approval put me off. Eyes Of Fire is about some European settlers transgressing taboo land and features a patriarchal character full of belief in his abilities but lacking any sense or spine. Weird how the art we […]
Read more "What I Watched: Eyes Of Fire (1983)"QUEST (1984). Saul Bass is rightly famous for his title sequence designs for Hitchcock and Kubrick but he also turned his hand at film making, like this short fantasy/sci—fi movie based on a Ray Bradbury tale. Humans live for only eight days on a strange world, but they send a boy on a quest to […]
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