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 →
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 →
The things a samurai has to do for money. In this case, they gotta bust some ghosts. 100 Monsters is part of a series of yokai movies that focuses on monsters and samurai. It really is a strange mix of genres, but it’s a mix that’s mostly refreshing. But with a title like 100 Monsters,... Continue Reading →
September’s movie was David’s #12 Dreams… specifically Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. This seems to be something very different from anything I’ve ever seen from Kurosawa. It’s basically a compilation of 8 short films that he has labeled his dreams. I guess the closest of his films would be Rashomon, which has basically three shorts, but at... Continue Reading →
This week I review the Arkansas made feature film, Ghosts of the Ozarks. Check out the review in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/sep/30/chasing-down-ghosts-of-the-ozarks/
