My partner asked me what I wanted to watch on Netflix a few weeks back and, as usual, we both ended up being lost in an endless maze of choices if we didn’t pick the usual (Orange is the New Black Season 5). Eventually she and I settled on an old(?!) Dreamworks picture called Antz…
On the way back from Sorry to Bother You (directed and written by The Coup’s Boots Riley) a couple of my friends were discussing what made the film work. We all agreed that it was a movie we’d never seen before and unlike Black Panther (a terrific movie in its own right) it wasn’t just…
If you’ve read my review of the original Clerks then you know I’m a pretty big fan. And that I’m especially a big fan of Randal and his existentialist ways as well as the absurdist tempo of the film. There is an excellent spirit of slacking and appreciating the slacker in that film and while…
There are many old refrains when speaking about relics of the past: “Oh for it’s time it was a terrific movie.” “It was a true innovator and was beloved by many back then.” “If you had been alive then you would have loved it too!” All of these phrases imbue the present with meaning narrowly…