Asteroid City
Wes Anderson continues to explore the synthesis between high camp visuals and dead pan existentialism with a flare for miniature photography and jukebox scores in the science fiction film Asteroid… Read more »
Tag: Tilda Swinton
Remembrance Of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
John Maybury’s feature length experimental video Remembrance Of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies (1993) sees the filmmaker utilizing the video effects and techniques that made his music videos so… Read more »
Three Thousand Years of Longing
In Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) filmmaker George Miller indulges in sexual tourism and orientalism to adapt A.S. Byatt’s short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. Miller’s investigation… Read more »
Caravaggio
A few years ago I was at Comic Con. I shopped, I saw friends and I took in a few panels. One of these panels was with Sean Bean. When… Read more »
The Grand Budapest Hotel
It’s been years since Wes Anderson transcended the cult status of his earlier films. Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) offered a highly stylized, if not completely unreal, suggestion of what was… Read more »
Hail, Caesar!
The allure of Joel and Ethan Cohen’s films elude me. To me, they are akin to Steven Spielberg, but for “clever” people. Their 2016 homage to big studio Hollywood, Hail,… Read more »
Doctor Strange
The world of Doctor Strange is one that I know and love. Rintrah is by far one of my favorite supporting characters in all of comic books. I have two copies… Read more »
