Never Knows Best
What happens when giant robots and monsters representing puberty burst out of your head? I've got just the anime to ask that question and see where it leads! FLCL is a show that's been on my radar for awhile, and after learning that, at least the initial run, had a runtime of only a smidgen over two hours, this felt like it would be an easy single viewing. Purely being engaged with as an object with a…
"New thinking, great old taste."
A little bummed that this one didn't really do much for me, but I continue to be appreciative that Netflix and Prime collectively are able to offer me pretty much all the modern Indian cinema I can possibly want. Of course, something I have said and will continue saying that I should seize on more often until I actually just do it. I found this romantic comedy to be only mildly amusing at best, and…
"Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake."
In one word, grating. Before I say anything beyond that, I'm going to make something clear: I wholly get what Oliver Stone and company were doing here. You can't miss what this movie is supposed to be about. It's decent messaging. Of course we glorify killers in the media. Of course humans are hypocritical with violence. The way the film is made, I also understand that this movie is likely meant to…
Live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse.
Now this is a queer punk flick I can get behind. I absolutely adored the first Gregg Araki film I saw, Nowhere, and though this doesn't quite match up to the sheer amount of insanity and adoration I found with that, I liked The Living End my fair share. Here we find unlikable men in an even more unlikable world. The extreme "Be gay, do crimes." feature. There's only so long you…
