a treatise on the human condition 
in times of nuclear fallout.

this feels like a lost film that someone
discovered in a vat of toxic waste.

the imagery, shrouded in sepia tones, fog, 
explosions, steam punk, and corpses donning
oxygen masks, is cryptic and otherworldly.

think Threads meets Whispering Pages.

it is quite clear that Lopushansky is a protege of Andrei Tarkovsky. his hypnotic style and arresting imagery are highly similar to both Tarkovsky and Russia’s other cinematic auteur - Aleksandr…

To quote John Waters, who sums this up perfectly:

“The best sexploitation film of the year has Disney tween starlets hilariously undulating, snorting cocaine, and going to jail in bikinis. What more could a serious filmgoer possibly want?“

Not much more needs to be said than this. Spring Breakers is my favorite Korine film by far - and my favorite to revisit, partially due to the fact that it was shot in my hometown. 

Not only is it a scathing commentary on…

This movie will probably forever hold a spot in my top ten favorite films. I believe Blue Valentine is the most authentic film ever made that details the blossoming and slow degradation of love. I have never seen a film so unflinchingly realistic in terms of character dynamics and chemistry. It is easily the best performances I have yet to see from Gosling and Williams. Cianfrance edits this film masterfully by cutting between the early days of romance where hope…

Darren Aronofsky never fails to create maddeningly intense character studies where the people on screen suffer just as much as the audience does. Aronofsky’s latest tour-de-force, Mother!, is possibly his most ambitious film to date, and definitely his most divisive. I haven’t seen such a civil war of opinion in the film community in a long, long time. I cannot help but feel so happy that ambitious arthouse films such as Mother! are being financed by major studios and receiving…