![]() While Cronenberg’s 2022 do-over on the subject of organic novelty in a collapsing society isn’t a remake by any stretch of the new flesh, it addresses the same pet interests that’ve filled his films since the beginning. ![]() New organs are created (and sometimes worshiped) in a broken society now run by fetishists and hurtling towards a dire, damnable biological response. The dreamy and experimental Crimes of the Future (1970) sees creative cancers develop in a womanless world ravaged by viruses. Digging into the art world’s juicy guts and suturing it up as a compelling, ambitious sci-fi noir, Crimes of the Future thrills, even if it leaves a few stray narrative implements sewn into its scarred cavities. ![]() Sharing a title with Cronenberg’s second film, the latest from the body horror auteur is a return to (de)form after two decades of more dialed-back drama. Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Don McKellar, Scott Speedman Crimes of the Future Release Date: June 3, 2022 The complexity, both tonally and visually, is there to tease out the film’s black genre heart, and it’s that heart that makes The Menu a delicious and deeply filling experience that will make you beg for a second helping.- Matthew JacksonĢ. Its true strength is not in tweezers, or carefully engineered molecular gastronomy, but in the furious swipes of a cleaver coming at your head. Yes, all the ingredients are treated with care, and the film’s early developments are placed with the precision of a single sprig of chives tweezed onto a plating, but the film’s dark secret is that it’s not here to be subtle. The film is interested in each of these personalities to varying degrees, but turns particularly sharp focus on Margo (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Tyler (Nicholas Hoult), a mismatched couple with very different views of what they’re about to experience. Hawthorne serves just 12 diners per service, and on the night we journey to the island, they include everyone from a couple of regulars (Judith Light, Reed Birney) to a renowned and famously hard-to-please food critic (Janet McTeer) to a fading movie star trying to build a second career as a travel show host (John Leguizamo). The restaurant at the heart of this heady recipe is Hawthorne, a fabulously expensive establishment run by the demanding, precise Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes, sharp as carbon steel) from a private island where all the ingredients are local and a seat at the table will set you back more than a grand. The list of ingredients is long, the techniques complex, but everything is whipped like egg whites into something so light and airy you barely notice the bitterness until it smacks you in the teeth. Yes, the enigmatic master chef at the heart of film is playing with the raw materials of life and death on his plates-seafood, fungi, roast chicken, flash-frozen microgreens and plenty of artful foam-but the menu he’s developed, and the film that depicts it, is also dealing with the raw materials of human human life and death. Food, he tells us, is the purest and best art form, because a great chef’s medium is “the raw materials of life and death.” Like just about every piece of dialogue in the film, written with fiendish joy by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, it’s both funny in the moment and unexpectedly profound in the larger context of The Menu’s dark game. Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, John LeguizamoĮarly in The Menu, director Mark Mylod’s beautiful, intricate dark comedy set amid the trappings of exclusive restaurant culture, a character explains that, for him, art doesn’t matter. In fact, Curry has used that scouting report to cut past promotions.1. ![]() The former Pacers legend was reading from a now-infamous scouting report of Curry from the 2009 NBA Draft. Except, as many diehard Curry fans already know, those aren’t actually Miller’s thoughts. The opening comment from Miller may seem a bit harsh. A new A24 Production, #Underrated premieres on July 21. Never underestimate The Baby Faced Assassin. It seems like a fitting place - and person - to start this journey, since Miller previously owned the league’s career three-point record now held by Curry. Produced by Ryan Coogler (who directed Creed and Black Panther), the trailer for Underrated opens with a shot of Reggie Miller looking into the camera and saying “do not rely on him to run your team” in reference to Curry. The trailer for a new documentary about the rise of Stephen Curry from an undersized three-point shooter in college to an all-time NBA great arrived on Monday morning and it already looks fantastic. ![]()
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