This movie got buried. Not sure why – it’s f**king awesome! Here’s our Vox Lux review. Written and directed with serious aesthetic panache by Brady Corbet (from a story he co-wrote with Mona Fastvold), this is the grittier side of A Star is Born, and far more compelling and bold from where I sit. The…
Coming off of his original and haunting debut film, Ex Machina, Alex Garland parlayed his newfound status and momentum into a visually rich and emotionally charged film headlined by the wonderful Natalie Portman. Annihilation is a film that aims high, shored up by an eclectic and visceral cast, but its plot is so lowkey that…
Other than the misleading title which suggests some sort of revisionist feminist twist on the old west milieu which never comes to pass, I’m not so sure what the problem was with Jane Got A Gun. This is that supposedly “bad” outlaw revenger that came and went this past winter, getting beat up by “critics”…
