Review: Joker
Disturbing. That’s really the only word that comes to mind when attempting to process my thoughts on Joker. Did I like it? I don’t know. Not really. Did I not…
Review: The Sisters Brothers
It seems the western will never die. The allure of rugged men out there slinging guns and making their fortunes panning for gold was too much for French director Jacques…
Review: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
Director Gus Van Sant has brought us some very powerful films in the past -- Milk, Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester, to name just a few -- and he frequently…
Review: You Were Never Really Here
Joaquin Phoenix is a phenomenal actor, but his choices of roles lately tend to be odd loners in strange situations (Inherent Vice, The Master, Her, to name just a few))…
Inherent Vice
I have liked Paul Thomas Anderson's films a lot in the past (Magnolia, Boogie Nights, There Will be Blood), and Inherent Vice has a lot of the elements he is…
Her
Her is really all about him, him being Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with his personalized operating system named Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). If this sounds a bit…
The Master
You can tell from the opening frames of The Master that it takes itself very seriously and expects the same of you. Its world is very heavy. And I think…