A psychotic criminal (Nic Cage) kidnaps an executive who's rushing to the hospital to support his pregnant wife, who is going into a difficult labor. Cage is terrific, howling and doing bad karaoke and otherwise doing his thing, but Joel Kinnaman holds his own as the resourceful hostage, making this two-hander very watchable despite some eyebrow-raising plot turns.
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Happer's Comet 2022
We peek at the mundane lives of numerous people over what seems to be one night in one small town: they sleep, watch TV, a young woman sneaks out of the house to meet a lover, a man rollerblades in the dark. There is no dialogue, story, or comet. Cinematography and sound design is excellent; the whole thing seems aimed at cinematographers and sound designers. This is a curious Covid artifact that would not have been made if not for pandemic-era social distancing.
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After Last Season 2009
A pair of med students who may have psychic abilities stumble onto a serial killer, or something like that, in this strong candidate for the worst feature length film ever made. Between the baffled actors reciting bewildering dialogue, sheets of paper taped to walls to identify sets, and the crude trial software animation used to bring the characters' mental visualizations to life, it's like listening to your dullest friend relate his strangest dream. A film to watch because it exists and for no other reason.
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Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway 2019
A CIA agent (who also happens to be a hunchbacked dwarf and pizza connoisseur) accepts a mission to go into "Psychobook" to combat the virus "Stalin" released by the Soviet Union. Meet the President of Ethiopia (a kung fu supervillain) and Jesus himself inside this virtual reality world which is itself nestled in an alternate reality where the Cold War never ended, and technology is simultaneously stuck in the 1990s and decades ahead of where we are today. You've never seen anything quite like this absurdist psychological thriller/camp comedy. It's a real-deal next-generation cult movie waiting in the wings.
