Dripping with nostalgia and soaked in pastiche, ONCE UPON A TIME is an incredibly enjoyable, meandering slow-ride through the world of 60’s Hollywood that operates as a tender, charming, hilarious, but heart-felt love letter to the industry and town that Quentin Tarantino took by storm 25 years ago.
It is JACKIE BROWN in cadence - mellow and cool. Absent are the two-page monologues or scenes where there are six Tarantinos talking to each other. Gone is the cartoonish explosiveness that…
What a ride. Never have I watched a movie that shifted and morphed mood/tone/genre so effortlessly. PARASITE curiously pulls you in with its charm and quick wit, lets you enjoy yourself a bit, and before you know it you’re tumbling down some slippery stairs and thrown into a heavy spin cycle and by the time it stops you’re left wondering what the hell just happened.
“This is so metaphorical” Kevin dryly says throughout the film. Well he wasn’t wrong. From…
Hypnotically distant like a memory being crystallized and sliding into its place in a stained glass window. Eager to be recalled, revisited, recollected. A vignetted glimmer of the past, a blurry shadow tucked away in the recesses of our mind, gently vibrating with nostalgia.
Mythical figures are often collectively woven into the fabric of history bearing no mind to who they actually were, but more so what we wanted or needed them to mean to us. Enough literature and…
For years I had been wanting to familiarize myself with Indian Cinema and for years I put it off. Even created a list or two of a few dozen titles I wanted to start with, namely Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), 3 Idiots (2009), and Ray’s Apu Trilogy (1955-59).
But then RRR bursts onto the scene and before I knew it, I was transported to this fairy tale land between Delhi and dynamite dreams. What a force of nature! I…
