By: Paul Farrell
Bodies move gracefully with intense and immaculate precision. Dance, after all, is a discipline, its craft dictated by strategic maneuver. Terry Gionoffrio is nothing if not a dancer. But accompanying such a contract is the high-risk, high-reward possibilities of success and failure — a dream realized or a future destroyed.
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Love is an odyssey, fraught with all manner of earthly obstacles — including chainsaws.
Sander Maran’s Chainsaws Were Singing is a wildly chaotic musical gorefest, harvesting energy from both the gloriously gooey work of a young Peter Jackson and the emotive sensibilities of the Broadway stage. A charming amalgam of a later Texas Chain Saw Massacre sequel and Cannibal! The Musical (1993), the film spends its runtime reveling in the harmonic dissonance created by the many competing tones that flit across the ever-swirling, blood-soaked frame.
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AJ operates in a world fueled exclusively by irreverent whimsy and limitless imagination, which is why it is so funny that he spends his days eating toast in his kitchen, soup with his married friends, and, as a treat, frequenting the local dog park. AJ’s undoing is this very commitment to the simplicity of a comforting routine, an affront to the unnamed cosmic forces that govern his odd universe and one that must be rectified through the kind of heroes’ trials that might’ve inspired Odysseus, Luke Skywalker, or even Homer Simpson to run for mayor too.
Read More »By: Emily von Seele
The new movie from Carter Smith (The Ruins) is a queer horror film that manages to be both a terrifying and squirmy piece of body horror as well as the story of a beautiful relationship.
Read More »By: Emily von Seele
There is insurmountable joy to be found in stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. They don’t have to be earth-shattering, heroic deeds. Sometimes they are small and sometimes they are what the outside world might call “silly.” But to the people doing them, they are everything. A mountain that has been scaled. A monster that has been defeated. Sometimes just having a dream and seeing it brought to fruition can be the most exciting feeling of one’s life. And for those of us who get to watch, it is so thrilling to experience this high vicariously.
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