Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#20 in my ranking of the Classic Universal Monster movies. Here we are. This is really what I had been expecting for the last few entries in the Universal Horror franchise. A rote repeat of what had come before while missing all of the terror of the original without being able to supply anything new.… Continue reading The Invisible Man Returns
#6 in my ranking of theatrically released Batman films. When I heard that Matt Reeves, director of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, was making a noirish, 70s inspired, epic three-hour Batman film, I was excited. To come out of the experience thinking that it was merely pretty good feels like a disappointment. I wasn't… Continue reading The Batman
#9 in my definitive ranking of David Lynch's films. This is the ultimate David Lynch movie. Born of a series of experimental short films he made with consumer grade digital cameras, this is a series of images looking for a story. Thankfully Lynch did find a story to hang it all off of, but at… Continue reading Inland Empire
#6 in my definitive ranking of David Lynch's films. Rather famously salvaged from a television pilot made for ABC, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive is a delirious and mad descent into depression from two different, mutually exclusive directions. This is kind of the perfect Lynch movie in a way, where the specifics and literal realities are… Continue reading Mulholland Drive
#3 in my ranking of Martin Scorsese's films. This movie's ending is a case study in how to read movies. If you consider what was said before, what was done before, and the basics of the character's journey, there is literally only one way to read the movie's final moments. Everything up to that moment… Continue reading Shutter Island
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