Spike Jonze
Movie Review: Beau Is Afraid
4 stars out of 5I described Ari Aster’s 2018 film Hereditary as “seriously f’ed.” And in 2019, I said his film Midsommar was “100% f’ed up.” But not until writing this review did I realize that those two movies and new release Beau Is Afraid (pretty messed up in its own right) were written and […]
Movie Review: Jackass Forever
3.5 stars out of 5 It’s not that I was opposed to Jackass; I just never tuned in. I certainly noticed the show’s influence on my young friend [TRIGGER WARNING: obscure name-dropping], then-aspiring filmmaker Van Neistat. I dug the Minutemen song they used as theme music. Names seeped into my awareness: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Wee […]
Movie Review: Her
3.5 stars out of 5 Spoiler alert: She ends up cheating on Joaquin Phoenix with the guy from the Amazon Kindle commercials. She is her, the artificial-intelligence-enhanced operating system in the latest offering from Spike Jonze. It’s his first film for adults since Adaptation way back in 2002, and his first directorial effort since slumming […]
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