Again, this is why you are so valuable. That detestable character in Passages? I have spend time in real life with a few. Don’t want to let another one in my TV room.
Good stuff. We just watched Asteroid City. It’s ALL there. All of Wes’s tricks. We enjoyed it.
Btw - A new theatrical release scheduled for Aug 18 is Birth/Rebirth (IFC/Shudder). A psychological horror film, it opened the Midnight section at Sundance as well as NYC MoMA to very positive reviews. It’s co-written and produced by local writer and film maker Brendan OBrien and the talented director Laura Moss (FryDay, Rising Up: the story of the zombie civil rights movement and Allen Anders, Live at the Comedy Castle). Hope you get to see it !
A propos of nothing in this set of reviews, are you eventually going to let us see the list of movies you send to your guest critics for great movies of the new Millenium? I’m wondering about a lot of movies if they made the cut, but most recently, Talk to Her.
My review runs online in the morning, but I will be joining you in the minority group on PASSAGES. I liked it half-a-star more than you did. It's one of those movies where I wish I were not writing for the newspaper because my review would be a lot more explicit, informative and use the term "sociopathic bottom energy." But I was able to (in a clean way) invoke that line Ellen Burstyn said in the otherwise godawful LUCY IN THE SKY about how "that astronaut dick will make you go crazy!" There's only so far I can go before I start scaring the straights who long for your return to the paper. Rogowski's character is uninteresting, but his commitment to the performance held some fascination for me and made the movie watchable. Since I have zero sympathy for characters who are willing doormats in movies, I didn't find him as detestable as you did. But we agree on uninteresting.
Again, this is why you are so valuable. That detestable character in Passages? I have spend time in real life with a few. Don’t want to let another one in my TV room.
Good stuff. We just watched Asteroid City. It’s ALL there. All of Wes’s tricks. We enjoyed it.
Btw - A new theatrical release scheduled for Aug 18 is Birth/Rebirth (IFC/Shudder). A psychological horror film, it opened the Midnight section at Sundance as well as NYC MoMA to very positive reviews. It’s co-written and produced by local writer and film maker Brendan OBrien and the talented director Laura Moss (FryDay, Rising Up: the story of the zombie civil rights movement and Allen Anders, Live at the Comedy Castle). Hope you get to see it !
A propos of nothing in this set of reviews, are you eventually going to let us see the list of movies you send to your guest critics for great movies of the new Millenium? I’m wondering about a lot of movies if they made the cut, but most recently, Talk to Her.
Just a thought.
My review runs online in the morning, but I will be joining you in the minority group on PASSAGES. I liked it half-a-star more than you did. It's one of those movies where I wish I were not writing for the newspaper because my review would be a lot more explicit, informative and use the term "sociopathic bottom energy." But I was able to (in a clean way) invoke that line Ellen Burstyn said in the otherwise godawful LUCY IN THE SKY about how "that astronaut dick will make you go crazy!" There's only so far I can go before I start scaring the straights who long for your return to the paper. Rogowski's character is uninteresting, but his commitment to the performance held some fascination for me and made the movie watchable. Since I have zero sympathy for characters who are willing doormats in movies, I didn't find him as detestable as you did. But we agree on uninteresting.