And yet, The Lobster also reminds us how difficult life is when you’re in love-- it’s nice sharing dreams and future plans with someone, but you also have to share pain, even though it’s so much easier crying alone.
Read MoreGive Me Shelter : A Bigger Splash
The only thing on the island more oppressive than the weather is their lust. Eventually each of them succumb to each other. Every new indiscretion is heralded by the land - a fierce wind, a frenzy of cicadas. The island itself is teeming with some phantom energy, a heat that remains from the long dormant volcano.
Read MoreEverybody Wants Some and Everybody Gets Some
Richard Linklater calls Everybody Wants Some!! the “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused and the “cousin” to Boyhood —there’s always that low key sexist cousin in the family who you don’t have much in common with, isn’t there? He may as well rename this film Fuckboyhood.
Read MoreJoy and the Noxious Male Genius
She is creative, but pragmatic first, her genius is hands on and hard-won. Joy Mangano espouses the pleasure of utility, ingenuity and practicality but the film itself is stuffed with arguably useless flourishes, it is rambling instead of efficient, clunky instead of lightweight. The Miracle Mop it is not.
Read MoreNotes on Miss You Already
Their lives are devoted to pleasure and comfort; a kind of editorial lifestyle that requires money and the illusion of personal style. But no amount of good taste could save Milly from cancer and its gruesome toll on her body. At least she gets to live out her final days in an exorbitantly luxurious hospice.
Read MoreFrom a Review of The Martian
It’s inconceivable that the American public would lose Matt’s matter to a planet that resists colonization. Matt returned can be forgotten but Matt left on Mars would be a ghost fucking up NASA's funding for all eternity and reminding Americans of their embarrassing interplanetary defeat. Animated or not, we want to keep our bodies within our borders.
Read MoreTravel Diary of a Bond Girl
Everyone loves older men and even older cities. But women must be girls, and preferably girls from out of town.
Read MoreFrom a Review of Mommy
You are a half: wandering around, looking for your other. It is necessarily so. We survive because desire moves us forward and desire can never be sated. If you believe the psychoanalysis, we become aware that we are separate from our mothers (and everyone else) when we look in the mirror and see ourselves; alive and apart. Perhaps some trauma before the age of three could bring a child to this awareness too early, a permanent cleft in their sense of comfort.
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