Ryan Trecartin plays multiple roles, who in turn have multiple identities, in his 2007 hyperkinetic meditation on identity, clones, avatars, and new media.
Thanks for the reminder about the higher ticket prices for some of the specialty releases. I noticed Texas Chainsaw Massacre is $15 which I’ll probably pass on even though I should probably see it at some point. I did notice the AMC Monday and Tuesday deal, but I haven’t had a chance to take advantage of it yet.
Somehow they're just piling too much interesting stuff into our commercial theatres, at least next week...which is unusual for an August. (Last August, for example, was painfully terrible.)
"Ne Zha 2" was excellent, highly recommended on as big a screen as possible, though I've not seen it with the new English dub. Unfortunately, based on the trailer, "Mahavatar Narasimha" suffers greatly from the most uncanny of valleys, and most of what I've read about it bears that out. "Ne Zha 2" doesn't make that mistake.
The YRF Spy Universe films are all fairly entertaining, though I think it may have peaked with its first outing, the surprisingly good Salman Khan vehicle "Ek Tha Tiger", which seems much more grounded than the later entries. The first "War" was much better than I expected, but a lot of that credit goes to the practical action work of Tiger Shroff, who, unfortunately, is not in the new film (which, honestly, would have taken some narrative acrobatics. Hopefully N.T. Rama Rao's presence will make up for them making me wait a year or two for more Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone.
In Tamil cinema, he has sobriquet "Superstar Rajinikanth" for a reason, but I don't know that he's been picking the of films of late (and they seem pretty repetitive). The last truly great one of his I saw was 2018's "Kaala". The other three Lokesh Kanagaraj films I've seen have all been decent enough, and quite massy, though I'm not sure any of them are standouts. Considering that they're charging 17$ for it...I hope it stays another week and drops to normal pricing.
(On a completely unrelated note, they're already screening trailers for Ranveer Singh's December release, "Dhurandhar"...so, you know, very exciting....)
II recommend "Sketch". It's a monster movie. Think "Jurassic World: Rehash"...if it didn't suck. Or maybe a colorful kaiju comedy. They should let this guy make the next Monsterverse picture.
As for "Red Sonja", I'd say I'm still waiting for Matilda Lutz to appear in a good film, except, you know, I'm clearly not.
That's just my two cents. Or, idunno, 37 cents or so. As you know, I'm not lacking in opinions.
Oh, and another interesting development: the half-off/less expensive day at the AMC out in Fitchburg is now two days: Tuesday and Wednesday...which might help on those occasions there's a fuckton of stuff I need to get to and it all stays for only one week.
Thanks for the reminder about the higher ticket prices for some of the specialty releases. I noticed Texas Chainsaw Massacre is $15 which I’ll probably pass on even though I should probably see it at some point. I did notice the AMC Monday and Tuesday deal, but I haven’t had a chance to take advantage of it yet.
Somehow they're just piling too much interesting stuff into our commercial theatres, at least next week...which is unusual for an August. (Last August, for example, was painfully terrible.)
"Ne Zha 2" was excellent, highly recommended on as big a screen as possible, though I've not seen it with the new English dub. Unfortunately, based on the trailer, "Mahavatar Narasimha" suffers greatly from the most uncanny of valleys, and most of what I've read about it bears that out. "Ne Zha 2" doesn't make that mistake.
The YRF Spy Universe films are all fairly entertaining, though I think it may have peaked with its first outing, the surprisingly good Salman Khan vehicle "Ek Tha Tiger", which seems much more grounded than the later entries. The first "War" was much better than I expected, but a lot of that credit goes to the practical action work of Tiger Shroff, who, unfortunately, is not in the new film (which, honestly, would have taken some narrative acrobatics. Hopefully N.T. Rama Rao's presence will make up for them making me wait a year or two for more Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone.
In Tamil cinema, he has sobriquet "Superstar Rajinikanth" for a reason, but I don't know that he's been picking the of films of late (and they seem pretty repetitive). The last truly great one of his I saw was 2018's "Kaala". The other three Lokesh Kanagaraj films I've seen have all been decent enough, and quite massy, though I'm not sure any of them are standouts. Considering that they're charging 17$ for it...I hope it stays another week and drops to normal pricing.
(On a completely unrelated note, they're already screening trailers for Ranveer Singh's December release, "Dhurandhar"...so, you know, very exciting....)
II recommend "Sketch". It's a monster movie. Think "Jurassic World: Rehash"...if it didn't suck. Or maybe a colorful kaiju comedy. They should let this guy make the next Monsterverse picture.
As for "Red Sonja", I'd say I'm still waiting for Matilda Lutz to appear in a good film, except, you know, I'm clearly not.
That's just my two cents. Or, idunno, 37 cents or so. As you know, I'm not lacking in opinions.
Oh, and another interesting development: the half-off/less expensive day at the AMC out in Fitchburg is now two days: Tuesday and Wednesday...which might help on those occasions there's a fuckton of stuff I need to get to and it all stays for only one week.