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December 23, 2024

Home Video Hovel: No Country for Old Men, by Rudie Obias

Ever since the Criterion Collection started to release movies from Joel and Ethan Coen with their first film Blood Simple on DVD and Blu-ray in 2016, it was only a matter of time before the home video distribution company released...

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December 16, 2024

The Brutalist: Resilient Uprising, by Scott Nye

The Brutalist arrives with a head full of steam and a heart full of pain. It opens with an interrogation and ends with a mystery. It is caught – or it captures – the point of history, of the human...

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December 16, 2024

The Room Next Door: Settling Into the End, by Scott Nye

“Late style” is probably only a selling point amidst a specific type of cinephile, but it is for those I declare – The Room Next Door bring Pedro Almodóvar, the revered 75-year-old Spanish filmmaker, at long last to his late...

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November 25, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Funny Girl, by Rudie Obias

From All That Jazz to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the musical genre has been sparsely represented throughout the Criterion Collection. There are just nearly 30 titles (including the subject of this review) out of the more than 1,700 entries...

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November 20, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, by Scott Nye

In her introductory remarks to a recent screening of Todd Haynes’ 1991 film Poison, producer Christine Vachon joked about how often people will declare the death of independent cinema, noting the too-common refrain that the glory days just wrapped up...

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November 6, 2024

Bird: Chaotic Good, by Scott Nye

Andrea Arnold’s films pivot on the arrival of a disarming, charismatic, and chaotic force, someone who in their initial presentation offers the young women at the center of her films an escape, but also possibly damnation. Michael Fassbender’s lithe lecher...

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October 28, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Gummo, by Rudie Obias

In 1995, filmmaker Harmony Korine broke out with the indie hit film Kids, which was written by Korine and directed by Larry Clark. A few years later, Korine released his directorial debut Gummo with a sharp division with film critics...

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September 26, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Happiness, by Rudie Obias

With the indie film movement booming during the ‘90s, movies that were strange, thought-provoking, and experimental gained big audiences and critical acclaim. One of the directors who received that push and attention was Todd Solondz, a filmmaker known for his...

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September 18, 2024

The Substance: ‘Til the Screaming is Gone, by Scott Nye

It’d be quite silly to start discussing Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance with any sort of clever allusions to its larger thematic purpose. The film is almost certainly the bluntest object I’ll see this year. Something akin to stretching Ellen Burstyn’s...

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September 17, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Not a Pretty Picture, by Scott Nye

David and I have spent a good deal of time on the show talking about the difference between documentaries that proceed with an intended course of action versus those that leave themselves open to the process of discovery. We’ve also...

Category: reviews

Home Video Hovel: No Country for Old Men, by Rudie Obias

The Brutalist: Resilient Uprising, by Scott Nye

The Room Next Door: Settling Into the End, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Funny Girl, by Rudie Obias

Home Video Hovel: Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, by Scott Nye

Bird: Chaotic Good, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Gummo, by Rudie Obias

Home Video Hovel: Happiness, by Rudie Obias

The Substance: ‘Til the Screaming is Gone, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Not a Pretty Picture, by Scott Nye

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