When watching Steven Soderbergh's latest, the first thing that stands out is how it is shot. The whole film has a distorted look. Things aberrate at the edges of the screen and there is an almost fish-eye effect; though, it's more like watching on an old non-flat screen TV. This is produced by period appropriate … Continue reading No Sudden Move (Review)
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Motherless Brooklyn (Review)
Edward Norton's noir thriller is a film defined by its surface. Luckily, that surface is really rather pretty. Motherless Brooklyn certainly isn't a great movie but it's very handsomely made, with beautiful cinematography, production design and a terrific soundtrack. There's also an entertainingly twisty plot that gives you a fun noir ride. It's a warm … Continue reading Motherless Brooklyn (Review)
Under the Silver Lake (Review)
Under the Silver Lake navigates many thin lines, including the gap between profundity and idiocy; satire and glorification; quirky and irritating; insight and cliché; revealing sexism and being sexist; and genre deconstruction and empty pastiche. Unfortunately, UtSL is on the wrong side of all of these and firmly proves that the line between love and … Continue reading Under the Silver Lake (Review)
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