How can a movie that hinges on a horse fucking a guy to death be so…boringly conventional?
Author: Steven Strauss
Yuxi
What Jexi could’ve been:
Wingless Phoenix
From one of my favorite actors erring, to another:
Lucy’s Not the Only Thing in the Sky
Yesterday, whilst discussing delightmares, I posited (in regards to Steven Knight, but the sentiment applies to many of my faves) that artists adventurous enough to swing for the fences will inevitably whiff a few at-bats.
Delightmare Serenity
Continuing our conversation regarding unintentional comedy (fuck artistic intentionality!), it’s high-time to finally explain the definition of a delightmare, through The Delightmare of 2019: motherfucking Serenity.
Goldfingered
Has a movie ever adapted a Great Work of Literature by satirizing the conventions of Great Works of Literature, and their #OscarBaity translations?
Suspect Subject
Not much shines in the world of The Golden Glove, and its characters — the dregs of society — find little glove-like protection from what ails them.
Downton, Where the Folx Aren’t Broke
Downton Abbey is typical period-piece porn, with two atypical exceptions of note:
Slowburn (emphasis on slow)
Has Elizabeth Banks ever been cast in a role that allowed her to utilize the full range of her skills?
Weaks
Art always responds, deliberately or subconsciously, to the climate in which it’s created.
