Director Max Barbakow mines some of the more nihilistic implications of the perennial 90s classic Groundhog Day (Ramis, 1993) for bittersweet laughs in this time-looping romantic comedy starring Lonely Island's Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti of How I Met Your Mother fame. Waking up in Palm Springs on the day of her half-sister's wedding, Milioti's … Continue reading Film Review: Palm Springs (Barbakow, 2020)
Film Review: Sound of Metal (Marder, 2019)
Following his fantastic starring role in Mogul Mowgli (2020), Riz Ahmed gives a career-defining performance as Ruben Stone, another musician devastated by a failing body in Sound of Metal, this time playing a heavy metal drummer whose sudden loss of hearing leaves himself afloat in a world for which he has to find new ways … Continue reading Film Review: Sound of Metal (Marder, 2019)
Film Review: She Dies Tomorrow (Seimetz, 2020)
She Dies Tomorrow plays out as a fever dream of doom ideation and reflection upon the nature of depression, but its central premise which sees the sudden notion that one is going to die the following day, infecting people like some sort of contagion, perhaps limits the film's more serious implications. The film's cast - … Continue reading Film Review: She Dies Tomorrow (Seimetz, 2020)
Comic Review: Joker #1 (2021)
James Tynion is on a roll. Between his regular Batman series and creator-owned titles like Department of Truth and Something is Killing the Children, Tynion has to be one of the most exciting and prolific talents working in comics right now. The first issue of his new series Joker boasts all the promise and excitement … Continue reading Comic Review: Joker #1 (2021)
Film Review: The Owners (Berg, 2020)
Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones, The Falling) stars alongside British screen icons Sylvester McCoy and Rita Tushingham in this home invasion horror/thriller which packs a nasty visual punch, if not a fully coherent plot. When Williams' boyfriend Nathan (Ian Kenny) and his two lads-in-crime plan to rob an elderly couple's house in their absence, only … Continue reading Film Review: The Owners (Berg, 2020)
Notes from the Multiplex 