In many ways, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead‘s engrossing Something in the Dirt is a quintessential Los Angeles movie. It’s not just the shots of helicopters and coyotes or the chatter about wildfires. It’s the fact that it’s about two...
Spring has sprung, so what better time to cover Benson & Moorehead’s Spring than right now? There is no better time, obviously. Silly question. How foolish of you to ask. Anyway, Corinne Corrosive returns after The Shunting to discuss arguably the most...
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”– H.P. Lovecraft “Adding a Lovecraft quote to your film doesn’t make your film Lovecraftian.”– The Cast of Cthulhu...
The first episode in the Benson/Moorhead back-to-back is here with this review of Resolution, though as we’re wont to do, there’s a fair bit of banter before the episode begins, this time on beer and breweries and pouring one out –...
Benson and Moorhead revisit the world that they established in Resolution with The Endless allowing them to explore more of the “what” of the entity controlling peoples’ fates, but still neglecting to answer the “why” or “how.”
Who’d have thought that it was a review from IMDb cluing me into how Resolution, a film that I initially wrote off as “two guys who did the best they could with what they had,” was actually a meta parody of tired...
Benson and Moorhead’s Spring is a marvelous exploration of suspense over surprise, focusing on two closed off characters whose world views of objectification stem from their vulnerabilities and fears of loss (even if its female lead is far more interesting than its...
It only made sense to bring in the first pair of guests in IDMB history to converse about the first directing pair being covered in IDMB history! Jerry Smith and Mike Snoonian of The Pod and the Pendulum podcast join to discuss the films of indie...
