July 2023
Month archive / 17 posts
Barbie
It’s all true, obviously, and it saves its best joke for an impeccable closer, and maybe if we’re lucky it’ll be a meaningful feminist Trojan horse for a few people. But the whole thing is just entirely too on-the-nose, and no amount of ostensibly subversive mumblecore cachet behind the camera can outrun the movie’s prime directive of brand rehab for a multibillion dollar toy company.
The good news for Barbie fans is that my opinion… See more →
2046
With Love
Omnicide
Forgive But Avenge
Nightmare Beach
In the Mood for Love
Fear
Tori and Lokita
Super Snooper
Town Topic
Snooper
Music for Spies
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
with special guest mads mikkelsen as elon musk
Superfights
Like an 11-year-old boy on a Lucky Charms bender scribbled out a screenplay and then picked up the phone and hired legit Hong Kong action pros to make it. If anyone has ever shot anything more entertaining on location in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I have yet to see it (and would desperately love to see it).
Music Costs Money
I’m not sure what’s so hard to understand about this.
Soraya Roberts, for Defector:
I just want to go to a concert. One concert. I just want to see First Aid Kit. I just want this one thing. […] But I am sorry, I am not willing to pay $97.58 for general admission at History, a Toronto club co-owned by Drake.
So that’s $73.04 USD for a relatively intimate experience (a 2,500 capacity venue in a major city) with a band that has nearly 3 million… See more →