So here’s a little fact about me. I used to write screenplays when I was younger. They were mostly just action or horror stories, but I would read the screenplays to some of my favourite films to get a sense of how to structure them. I mostly did it for fun, but I had the hope that one day I’d be able to bring them to life, despite the more cynical (or realistic) people in my life very bluntly telling…

Most of my reviews are just me verbally vomitting up my thoughts. For this one I thought I’d attempt something a little more structured. I still might not be able to help a bit of gushing off on a tangent here and there so please excuse me if I start to sound a bit incoherent.

This movie is peak cinematic escapism. It’s being transported to this fantasical, invented universe, forming connections with it’s vast array of characters and relationships, and…

First Criterion I ever bought, fun fact.

It’s a little upsetting how relevant this still is. The cycle of hate and the factors that feed it along, cultural marginalizing, socioeconomic disparity, that all around sense of societal hopelessness. Very Do The Right Thing now that I think about it. Also like Do The Right Thing, I like how it captures the other side as well, what it has to say isn’t as black and white as the characters think and the…

Stylish and atmospheric, but emotionally vacant. It’s a movie that insists it’s hiding away some profound, interpretive, deeper meaning, but all there is to interpret is what’s spelled out at the very surface level: He’s sad about a girl. Jenna Ortega is good, Barry Keoghan is good, the film is tolerable up to a point, but then you reach the third act when it really shits the bed, turning into what’s almost a parody of an Ari Aster film. There’s…