It's only fitting that Halloween Ends is the third installment in this trilogy, as it has more in common with the original Halloween 3 than any other Halloween movie. Halloween 3, for those that don't recall, did not have Laurie Strode or Michael Myers in it, the plot revolved around an evil Irishman wanting to... Continue Reading →
The Reflecting Skin is an incredibly different kind of vampire movie. It has the sensibilities of a David Lynch movie and the visual aesthetic of Andrew Wyeth. There's hand painted fields of golden wheat, dust covered gravel roads, and barns that are tilted askew. It is a weird movie, it is a dark movie, and... Continue Reading →
Bruno Schulz was a surrealist writer and artist in Poland in the 1930s. He was also Jewish. And being a Jew in Poland during the height of Nazism ended up causing his death, as he was gunned down in a Jewish ghetto for no reason other than two bickering Gestapo officers needing to take their... Continue Reading →
In the 1950s and 1960s there was this common thriller plot that would involve young women who may or may not have seen something nefarious but no one believing her. So as an audience we are questioning is this woman crazy or is there a conspiracy against her. Plots like this go all the way... Continue Reading →
The American Astronaut is a low budget indie homoerotic space western musical. And that's a strange mix of genres. In fact the whole movie is strange. And I found it incredibly charming. It mixes together this odd punk rock aesthetic mixed with like a love of Flash Gordon-esque 1950s science fiction. These elements have no... Continue Reading →
Spent the entire day in Hot Springs watching documentaries and day drinking. Hands down the biggest and the best film festival in Arkansas.
Got to see the documentary Hog Town at this year’s Bikes Blues and BBQ event. Good music, good people, and some damn fine food. It was a good weekend.
Yesterday Arkansas for the Arts event at the state Capitol. Got to talk to a view state representatives about the state of the arts in Arkansas. And the responses I got makes it sound like Arkansas could and should do better.
Varmints is an animated environmental cautionary tale with gorgeous animation and a wonderful score by the great Jóhann Jóhannsson. It’s completely dialogue-less which is a good thing since the main characters are bipedal puppy dog like creatures, whom can only speak in wimps and cries, the cutest sounds known to man. The story starts off... Continue Reading →
Clerks III (2022) My personal list of favorite films have had the same top 3 movies on it since 2005. Number 1 is Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal. Number 2 is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd.. And my third favorite film of all time is the 1994 classic comedy Clerks by Keven Smith. The early part... Continue Reading →
