Category Archives: Films
The Killer App
“Skyfall” is at the same level of quality as “Casino Royale”, making it a solid part of the upper-middle tier of the James Bond canon. It has its flaws, but one would have to be a terrible pedant to avoid watching it out of principle. Continue reading
The Sadomasochist Within
Takashi Miike’s 2001 cult classic “Ichi the Killer” could not have been a more interesting way to entice underclassmen to become potential Film Certificate candidates. At the screening, held in Wilson, attendees were treated to two hours of gratuitous gore, rape, gang warfare, and sexual deviance. Continue reading
The Nietzschean and the Chimp
The Master, much like There Will Be Blood, is less exciting as an exercise in history than as an exercise in anthropology – that is, it speaks more to the internal dynamics of social groups than to particular institutions or individuals. Continue reading
Gone For a Loop
Looper Directed by Rian Johnson Starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Rated R $10 general, $7.50 for students “Goddamn twentieth-century affectations,” Abe (Jeff Daniels), crime boss from the future, says bitingly to the young looper Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in reference to … Continue reading
