Might be the horniest, most pornographic movie I’ve ever seen. Like so much of Ballard’s writing, it’s highly masturbatory: heavy on sensation and repetition, its foremost goal being escalation. After a point, it forgoes any pretence of plot whatsoever, which makes the film’s coherence and overall watchability that much more impressive.
Are hardcore fetishists and fringe kink communities always bound to run up against such escalating risks, these fatally diminishing returns? The movie is exploratory and beautifully humanizing of its…

Wowza; if you ever wanted to experience how different a movie can feel after a few rounds of drastic editing, look no further: this could be the case study.
Whereas the theatrical cut of Raising Cain only played with and mimicked the iconic tropes of De Palma’s earlier erotic/psychological thrillers, the director’s cut twists the very narrative structure of what we’re so familiar with from the genre: here, starting the story off by following the wife, a female (Psycho-like) protagonist, who then gets…

A few too many thoughts to write them all down, but, this is a very creative film. I’ll always love how Lanthimos shoots his films. His fisheyes are bulging especially nicely in this, often adding humour which offsets the bizarre and morbid premise. Watching the film often feels like experiencing the world’s wonder again through the eyes of a child, which style contrasts wonderfully and uncomfortably with its themes and content. Great summation of Popper’s falsifiability and logic of scientific discovery, too,…

You know? I'm gonna claim: this one’s actually pretty smart.
It’s a kinda pseudo-remake of the original Alien in of story beats, like people are saying, that’s true; however, the setpieces are extremely creative, the cinematography and lighting look terrific; it has great performances, great sets, and also some great ideas; some super-duper creepy yonic imagery, too. The dialogue is not infrequently clunky, unfortunately — the legacy squeal compulsion to cram in a litany of quotes from earlier movies is…