I love the concept. Coming from the greek for alteration, parallax refers to using multiple points of view to determine distance. It doesn’t take much twisting to say another definition would be the use of altered states as depth perception. So, I dig the term, but I had no idea what the movie was about. [...]
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the franchise Star Trek; it’s continuing mission to seek out lucrative licensing opportunities. To blandly go where there has been a comfortable encampment for decades!
We went to the woods. Down the National Park road the direction Yogi told us. There was supposed to be a helipad there. The flat rock outcropping would suffice. We climbed up and smoked a bowl at sunset. Thousands of feet below a river ran. Its motion making static the vast forest in front of [...]
Subtitles are a distraction for the high mind. A language not understood can create a beautiful soundscape, or layers of meaning never intended by the creators; like birdsong or glossolalia. Subtitles however, and the effort they require, are about as inimical to to the high state of mind as anything I can image. So there was one immediate strike against Executive Koala, a Japanese cult flick from 2005 about a salary man at a pickle company named Tamura, who happens to be an anthropomorphic koala bear who becomes a suspect in the murders of at least two of his lovers.
Swimming Pool has one of those indie posters you pass at the Landmark Theaters… and keep going. Indie Cinema is for avant garde or niche subjects and this poster art looks decidedly mainstream. Too young to be a woman and too old to be a girl, she is basking in the sun in a bikini. [...]
Did the good guys win? Who makes that call? The Watchmen comic was an expression of the Cold War, the result of the long twisting and squeezing that that paranoiac end of the world time imposed upon our collective whoness, whatness and whyness. It looked 1986 square in the eyes and asked: “What the heck [...]
