Watching a narrative film made in Hollywood is a lot like riding a skateboard downhill; you look to find your point of balance and once that’s established, gravity will do the rest. That said, I found Maestro a difficult film to find my balance on.
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Maestro
Posted in Film, Netflix with tags Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Edna St Vincent Millay, Ely Cathedral, Hollywood, Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonard Bernstein, LGBTQI+, Maestro, Mahler, Martin Scorsese, Netflix, Tar on January 1, 2024 by Jarrod BoyleA Promising Young Woman
Posted in Film, Pretensions toward cultural theory, violence against women with tags A Promising Young Woman, Alex Garland, Carey Mulligan, Dredd, Genre cinema, I Spit on Your Grave, Judge Dredd, Rape, Rape/Revenge, Variety on May 18, 2021 by Jarrod BoyleI was fairly horrified by the film ‘A Promising Young Woman’, especially the murder at the end.
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