Watched: The Girlfriend Experience 🎬 Sasha Grey’s flat performance works fine in this non-linear narrative. There isn’t a plot, there are situations in the life of an escort who is also in an unfulfilling relationship. It felt longer than it is: empty and unfulfilling.
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Watched: Fearless 🎬 The opening is more powerful than the overwrought ending, but as a film about psychological damage it’s good. Jeff Bridges survives a gruesome plane crash. His new beatific presence is a thin shell around the agony. How long until he crumbles?
Watched: Tag: The Assassination Game 🎬 A mongrel genre movie mixing satire, noir, thriller and campus comedy that never commits to any of them. Not worth seeking out but fine if it’s on. Linda Hamilton has a great time.
Watched: The Drama 🎬 Some call this a dark comedy but it’s a tale of relationship disintegration. The characters are under so much pressure they vomit. Uncomfortable to watch, but the leads are great. I won’t watch it again.
In Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead two famous nothings hurtle towards a Shakespearean end. Watching them question their reality when offstage from Hamlet has some interest, but it’s a slog to get to their hangings. “The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.” 🎬
Black Nail Varnish
Monday, April 6, 2026
Influencers. A bigger, messier sequel that loses its way in a pointless romance arc, but CW remains a compelling villain and the franchise still has legs.
Watched: Ridicule 🎬 In a movie about the court at Versailles lacerating each other with their wit for the monarch’s favour, the real performance is in the eyes. The leads are handsome, the costumes as flowery as the words, but what engaged me was every pushback against the cruelty of the bored.
Dracula: A Love Tale
Monday, November 17, 2025
“Dracula: A Love Tale” presents a visually appealing but ultimately shallow romantic narrative that fails to capture the depth of female empowerment found in the original story.