Tag: cinema
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Inherent Vice (2014)
Short of studying Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice novel like a graduate student, you’re probably not going to be able to take it all in one viewing. That’s part of its charm though; it’s dense, thick, compressed and rarely lets up for air. Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation breathes a life and a smokey hangout vibe to…
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Interstellar (2014)
I wrote a smaller thing about this movie earlier this week, you can read it here. The following is a more in depth journey into the majesty and the frustrations with interstellar– a very gorgeous and immersive action film that does not realize that it is also a silly space opera about the power of…
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Boyhood (extended) – 2014
I wrote a review of Boyhood for Obsessed Magazine. Here’s an extended version of it: “What do you remember most about childhood” was what was written on a notecard handed to the people attending the screening for Richard Linklater’s opus Boyhood. Thinking about the question caused some conflict within me for the inherent challenging nature…
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The Conversation: Summer Movie Season Never Ends
At some point, the summer movie season became exhausting. Everything about it feels relentless, repetitive and terribly loud. These days the summer movie season no longer exists in what we call summer; it’s seeped its way into all the other seasons with its sequels, prequels, origin stories, remakes, reboots, reboots of sequels and so on.…
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Do The Right Thing (1989)
When I was a Freshman in college, my professor played scenes from Do The Right Thing in order to have a conversation about how we discuss and portray race in entertainment. When we got to the riot at the end of the film, a young black woman in the class began to laugh. My white professor…
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Ukigusa (Floating Weeds) – (1959)
A lot of time and energy is spent trying to divide life into this or that. Rather than accept that things are shaded in gray and deal with the murkiness that idea involves, people instead try to make things easy on themselves and group things into a series of good and bad or right and…
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Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) – In Brief
I’m still sorting out my complete feelings for the movie but hopefully I can find something eloquent to say about this film. Needless to say, Yasujirō Ozu’s story of mistakes, regret, jealousy and love is visually poetic and lovely to watch unfold. My being more impressed of the film on a technical level isn’t an…
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Morality, Addiction, Greed and The Wolf Of Wall Street
A lot of things have been written about the message being sent by Martin Scorsese’s latest film The Wolf Of Wall Street –mostly centering on its moral responsibility. The idea is that Scorsese seems to be almost promoting the reprehensible things in the movie by his decision to make a comical and exhilarating and entertaining…
Israel Daramola 