curated cinema: “we cannot break bread with you…”
1993’s Addams Family Values is on Paramount+ on both sides of the Atlantic, and Netflix in the UK.
Month: November 2024
Red One movie review: a very copaganda Christmas
Unfunny action comedy can’t even pull off sloppy Yuletide kitsch. The anti-chemistry among its likable stars is “bested” only by the ugly CGI. Have some light festive violence — you know, for kids!
I’m back on movie podcast Ribbon of Memes, talking about ‘Midsommar’
I join hosts RogerBW and Nick Marsh to talk about Ari Aster’s 2019 horror flick Midsommar.
Blitz movie review: the unraveling of propaganda
Picaresque childhood misadventures sketch vibrant WWII London. A movie of brutal randomness, feral intensity, and ferocious intimacy. Wildly human, artistically masterful, and completely magnificent.
