Uncut Gems Podcast (August 2022 Round-Up)
This year we decided to devote the month of August to none other than John Woo with a particular focus on his Hollywood movies. In fact, the idea to do this stemmed from the fact that one of our hosts is a massive fan/apologist of John Woo and he also happen to have his birthday … Continue reading Uncut Gems Podcast (August 2022 Round-Up)
Is Jordan Peele The M. Night Shyamalan of This Decade?
Despite a relentless marketing campaign running up to its long-awaited release, Nope came and went. Sure, it endeared a good cross-section of the critically-inclined viewership (here’s my take on this movie), but it somehow failed to leave a lasting mark on general audiences, thus disappearing from the collective cultural consciousness within a span of a … Continue reading Is Jordan Peele The M. Night Shyamalan of This Decade?
Nope (2022)
One data point is just what it is – a data point. Two data points are the minimum requirement to form a line. And for some reason it seems that quite a lot of critics and casual moviegoers alike decided that two data points are sufficient to form a trend, which is a big no-no … Continue reading Nope (2022)
Bullet Train (2022)
There is no debate: Bullet Train is a movie bound to endear a very particular (and sizeable) demographic of movie-goers. What is more, this specific group of film enthusiasts will be there for anything and everything this film has to offer. They’ll laugh uproariously at its abundance of snarky comedy, they’ll react accordingly to the … Continue reading Bullet Train (2022)
Uncut Gems Podcast in 2022, so far
I haven’t posted about Uncut Gems Podcast in here in a long while, which is mostly a result of the show finding its permanent new home at its own dedicated website HQ (uncutgemspodcast.com); and I do believe I may have mentioned it before (here) when I was still grappling with massive changes to my schedule … Continue reading Uncut Gems Podcast in 2022, so far
PIRANHA 2, Italian Horror Movies and the Case of Sequel Superiority
One of the age-old pub quiz questions from the movie trivia pool is the famous “name a sequel better than the original”. “Aliens“, shouts Billy. “T2“, adds Chris. “I got it, by the way. I got it! The Godfather Part II“, adds Nancy while imitating the smug sense of superiority oozing from Timothy Olyphant’s character … Continue reading PIRANHA 2, Italian Horror Movies and the Case of Sequel Superiority
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
We are halfway through 2022 and over a decade into what I can only describe as the ‘nostalgiacene’ epoch of blockbuster evolution. And it doesn’t look like the world is ready to move on. Though, I most certainly am.
How James Cameron rescued ARMY OF THE DEAD
What do you do when you find out you are extremely unlikely to like a movie you are watching now? Do you switch it off? Do you persevere? Do you bear it with clenched fists and a slapped-on grin, murmuring to yourself it would all be over soon and that you must slug it out … Continue reading How James Cameron rescued ARMY OF THE DEAD
Ambulance (2022)
If you were taken into a screening blindfolded and asked to definitively say – in the absence of opening credits – who directed the movie based solely on what it looked like, how many minutes would it take you to identify a Michael Bay movie? One? Two? Under a minute? Fair enough, the jig would … Continue reading Ambulance (2022)
X (2022)
Ti West and Rob Zombie are two sides of the same coin. Although superficially their movies do not look alike at all, their connected at the hip because both filmmakers through their work express similar emotions; only differently. And X might be the definitive lynchpin between them.
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