This week, after a brief hiatus, Adam and Kevin are back to review the gory Turkish horror film Baskin along with some other stuff they've been watching including Midnight Special, The Martian, Pee-Wee's Big Holiday, Spotlight, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, A Report on the Party and Guests, They're Watching, and The Corpse of Anna Fritz.
A24 has released the poster and trailer for Swiss Army Man, a film in which Paul Dano is stranded on a desert island and discovers a corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) who helps him survive. It looks delightfully absurd and I’m actually really excited
6.5
There is an undeniable absurdity to professional pursuits of Allie and Ino, the central duo of Psychopomp, but the absurdity of this short is compounded by the level of seriousness that is concentrated into their endeavors.
4.5
All aspects float between points of serviceable and above-average, yet Rubino fails to mark the original source material with any semblance of an original signature style of his own which renders the entire affair needless, in a sense.
6.5
The visual style of The Tourist is a shuffled deck of tandem suits - realism through hidden-camera-uncomfortable and soft-focus travelogue/introspection - in a back and forth succession as Sonnenblick’s inner monologue pulsates with a seething resentment and anger that, at first, appears surface level given his current situation before gradually revealing itself to be a much more deep-seeded operating mode. Though, Sonnenblick is able to periodically meld that resentment and anger into some genuine comedic expressions during his rambles.
This week, in honor of God's Not Dead 2 hitting theaters for some reason, Ryan watches God's Not Dead.
A new trailer for the R-rated animated comedy Nerdland has been released ahead of its premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The film features the voices of Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt as two slackers trying to make a name for
Subway Cinema posted up a new trailer for its upcoming Old School Kung Fu Fest, which will be taking place in NYC at Metrograph April 8 – 10. This year’s lineup includes screenings (nearly all in 35mm) of Enter the Dragon, Rumble
Ok so I know I’m a day late on this one, but I didn’t want to cause confusion by temporarily calling this feature Kickstart Monday so I’m keeping it how it is. This week, we’re featuring Christopher Good‘s latest short film,
7.5
Oliver and Lucy Sinclair were raised on an island. Every year their father, Robert, would create elaborate treasure hunts where the kids would need to run about the house and the island in order to find clues that would lead to a hidden treasure.
4
If Christopher Nolan’s moody Dark Knight trilogy could ask Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice a question, it would be: “Why so serious?” Director Zach Snyder is so concerned with the brooding and the bombast of a superhero conflict with dire potential consequences, there’s no time left for actual heroism. If Nolan’s films were a grounded, darker take on DC comics, Batman v Superman is the oppressively bleak version. The Man of Steel and The Bat of Gotham are laser-focused on battling each other ideologically and finally, after much fretting, physically, and the movie loses sight of the tangible stakes.
8.5
In his debut, Cameron Bruce Nelson has managed to present an effective portrait of humility in slow burn, a case study on the matter of adaptability as the nature of Sal’s situation remains in a constant state of flux, trying in earnest to readjust until finally realizing that he may not belong or be able to make do as nature decisively states its dominance emphatically. A bittersweet tale occupying the margins of the in between, in between the dusk of unrealized, cast off dreams and the threshold of promise and new beginnings.
This week, in honor of Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice hitting theaters, Ryan watches another classic Batman film with 1997's Batman & Robin.
2.5
Just when I think I’m done with found-footage horror movies, they drag me back in, this time with a particularly mediocre entry by the name of They’re Watching. While the payoff may be more grandiose than similar genre entries I’ve seen, that doesn’t make it any less unbearable.
Warner Bros. has released the first teaser trailer for The Lego Batman Movie, featuring the return of Will Arnett as the voice of everyone’s favorite caped crusader in a new block-shaped adventure. Michael Cera voices Robin, Rosario Dawson is Batgirl/Barbara Gordon, Zach Galifianakis is The Joker, Ralph
