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IR Film Review: CIVIL WAR [A24]
The contradiction of perspective sometimes offers a different perception in certain ways. With the film "Civil War", writer/director Alex Garland again seeks to stir the pot philosphically while using real world perspectives to engage ideas of conpiracy, hurt and misdirection.
IR Film Review: PEARL [A24]
"Pearl" brims with lead Mia Goth's energy. The character has so many demons but simply the chemistry in her is wrong and Goth gets that right. It is an interesting irony. Pearl wants so hard to please but her instinct tells her all the wrong things to do.
IR Film Review: BODIES BODIES BODIES [A24]
Creating a play on the horror genre with a sense of anticipation depends sometimes on perception of the idea being written but in many ways sometimes who is cast. An interesting play with "Bodies Bodies Bodies" is casting Amandla Stenberg with Maria Bakolova as a couple who enter into a house party right before a hurricane at the film's inset.
IR Film Review: EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE [A24]
There is a lot going on in "Everything Everywhere All At Once". And while some of it straddles the boundaries of storytelling and points of reference, it is a borderline brilliant film.
IR Film Review: X [A24]
The notion of anticipation and perception is an interesting beast. What Writer/Director Ti West does with his new film "X" is both reflexive but oddly surrealist in its eventual comeuppance.
IR Film Review: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH [A24/Apple TV+]
The essence of Shakespeare reflects in seeing an essence of truth beneath the structure but also finding something in brevity. With "The Tragedy Of Macbeth", the players are fantastic, the production stylized but the approach is finite simply because of its essence.
IR Film Review: THE GREEN KNIGHT [A24]
The story is based on the lore of anonymous writer but that basis might have indicated jealousy, greed or nepotism criticism in a certain way on the part of the writer who may have been an unreliable narrator.