Tag: film
Review: Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Graduation’
In the opening shot of Cristian Mungiu’s groundbreaking 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), we see fish swimming in a bowl. Behind the bowl, a poster of New York stands as a paradise forever out of reach. That suggestion of a free world beyond the reach of everyday Romanians becomes far more overt…
Zach Braff’s lazy remake of ‘Going in Style’
This will be the second consecutive piece I have written for Curnblog which begins by referencing an earlier piece I have written for Curnblog. That may well indicate that I have written too many things for Curnblog, or perhaps that I have just run out of ideas. But if I have run out of ideas,…
Puppet the Critic Show: John Wick 2
After I saw the poster for the second John Wick film, which seemed to have a hint of the horror film The Witch in its text and tone, I became intrigued, believing that John Wick 2 was going to use horror elements, extending the myth of Baba Yaga, and what happens to the boogey man…
From Beauty and the Beast to Trainspotting 2: Is 2017 any good?
I’ve written before on CURNBLOG about why movies released at the beginning of the calendar year are generally wretched. I’d include a link here, but you all can get off your asses (figuratively; actually you only have to type a few words into a Google search) and find it for yourselves. Sorry, I’m just in…
Q: The Winged Serpent – 35 Years of the Genre Redefining Classic Creature-Feature
In my previous article “That Infamous B-Flick: The Giant Claw” I talked about what a huge fan of creature-features I am, how they were part of the beginning of my cinephilia, and that while I had seen quite a number of them in my childhood, The Giant Claw (1957) was one that I never got…