A beautifully-made work demonstrating Lewis' typical control of sound, composition, and his own body. As a comedy it's almost entirely bereft of laughs, but that's fine - if you've made The Bellboy, you've already banked up enough all-time great jokes that you can spend the rest of your career getting weird with it imo.

While the Dean Martin/Buddy Love connection is obviously there whether intended or not, I agree with Rosenbaum that it's both more plausible and more interesting to…

The reviews of this really are like "sure it's one of the best-looking films in years and Driver is doing some of the most compelling stuff ever committed to screen but what does it MEAN?" Fuck you is what it means. Dunno why people expected this to be in the prestige-y tradition of La La Land when it's more in the tradition of The Wall, less a narrative and more a series of gorgeous setpieces based on music and pain.…

Had the distinct privilege tonight of watching what we're tentatively calling "The Original Cut", an early but essentially finished version that director Albert Pyun carried around in film cans for his entire life, hoping that it could someday be released. This was its first and probably last public screening, although I would love to be proven wrong on that point.

This cut takes the character much more seriously, which I was concerned about, because the main thing I like about…