James Cameron’s finest moment is a paranoid techno-thriller with slasher juice and a sea of bullets. It’s always a joy when there’s a coherent story emerging from the rubble. For every death-defying stunt, there’s a clever punch to match. It’s rare that choreographed action has such personality. The constant threat of the stalker-bot, only ever reduced to bits of liquid or holed-up with soda can-sized dents in his chest, is the perfect foil to Schwarzenegger’s Terminator, who is helplessly endearing…

Every time I crack open a new Obayashi film, it takes days for me to stop floating. I’m consciously rationing these out at this point. There’s not another filmmaker out there who fills me with love for the medium like he does. Motorbike takes his signature sentimentality towards youth and freedom, exploring summer love through actual nostalgia goggles, literally presented in monochrome.

These moments that mix reality and memory as flips from color to mono often only share subtle differences, playing…

Sundance 2022 #5
World Premiere

A reinforcement of the idea that men are terrifying, and rightfully so. Watcher makes a strong case for privacy blinds. I nearly chewed my hands off from the tension here. I can't imagine the fear and the paranoia of being stalked, and watching "strong" men attempt to tackle this issue with temporary bravado, empty threats, chest-puffing, etc. It perfectly displays what I can only imagine is the harrowing existence of being a woman in a…

[sundance] world premiere

i say this with zero hyperbole: i think that sorry, baby may be one of the best, if not, the best film about trauma that i’ve seen… and i’ve seen a lot! eva victor navigates her trauma with such a realism and such a pathos that, even as someone who cannot relate to her specific event, is absolutely picking up what she is putting down. this couldn’t be more deserving of the waldo salt screenwriting award—the dialogue and…