Havoc in the Spider-Verse. Five years after its predecessor exploded onto the scene, Across the Spider-Verse is like the (somewhat overly) ambitious follow-up album that expands upon every idea, central character beat, visualization, and allusive reference point to the extreme. If Into the Spider-Verse is the first true comic book movie, this is the first post-comic book movie, like speed reading Vol. 1 of the Miles Morales omnibus to an Otoboke Beaver album. But in addition to the pastel paint…
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
Shut up and turn it up.
A paint-splattered mixtape of Marvel's greatest hits, chopped and screwed with the B-sides and the one-off gimmicks. It's a vibrant collision of our greatest superhero/es with their plentiful adaptations and iterations. The inspiration points here are strewn across decades of movies, video games, and most especially cartoons. Not only does it level up the panels-within-panels, dynamic action, visual gags, making it the first and so far only comic book movie, but it digs deep…
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Shin Kamen Rider 2023
Can you feel the wind, Hongo?
What does a hero save us from? It's a question you might ask if you were, say, an idealistic but dumb mad scientist in a movie like Shin Kamen Rider, although hopefully sometime before you spend your whole career engineering them. "Bad guys," would make a pretty good answer, but here, all the nasties are a clear mirror image to the virtuous bug-eyed savior. They're all experiments gone awry, trying in vain to achieve…
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Finding Nemo 2003
One of Pixar's very finest, and for years my favorite of that entire fabled canon. Finding Nemo is like the studio's 21st century update on Bambi, a boldly colorful technical knockout that blends nature documentary detail with saturated cartoon fantasy to tremendous ends. It's a sharper drama about fatherhood than anything ever cooked up at Disney, and really it would go toe-to-toe with most adult dramas with similar themes about learning to let go. That it is a brisk, hilarious…
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The Living End 1992
✔️ Be gay
✔️ Do crimes
✔️ Go into severe depression for two weeks when Echo and the Bunnymen break upGregg Araki movies make me swoon. Existentialism has never been steamier, nor more seething. A blistering, essential piece of 90s New Queer Cinema.
