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H.R. Giger, 1940-2014
A brief remembrance, written this morning not quite as quickly as I can type, of the great Swiss artist H.R. Giger and his most iconic creation, for NPR Monkey See.
Saxon Sharbino and Clark Gregg in Trust Me, which Gregg wrote and directed.
Trust Me, the second feature film written and directed by Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.LD. star Clark Gregg, confounds pretty much any expectation you're likely to bring to it. I reviewed it for The Dissolve.
Not like this. Not like this. But somehow. Han Solo-as-conversation-piece, from 1983's Return of the Jedi.
It was actually my pal Village Voice Film Editor Alan Scherstuhl who pitched me on this piece. When Disney announced the other week that Harrison Ford would be returning for at least one more Star Wars movie, Alan figured -- and I immediately concurred -- that it's high time for Han Solo to receive the heroic demise that Ford wanted to give him in Return of the Jedi, 31 years ago. With apologies to Mike Ryan, whose work I admire, here's why Solo gotta go-lo.
Llyn Foulkes' painting The Awakening (1994-2012).
It's been a few years since I was way out of my depth trying to write about "visual art" -- by which I mean stuff that hangs on walls, that is, not cinema -- but reviewing the documentary Llyn Foulkes: One Man Band for The Dissolve brought me right back. I enjoyed the visit.
Kevin Spacey and Annabel Scholey in the Bridge Theatre Project's Richard III.
Over on The Dissolve today, I review the documentary-with-pretentious-title NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage, about the Bridge Theatre Project's globetrotting Sam Mendes-directed, Kevin Spacey-starring Richard III.
I couldn't use this in my review, but it demonstrates the Herculean rigor of my research and/or how much of my own time I'm willing to waste: In one of the film's performance clips we hear Spacey conclude a speech, “Counting myself but bad ‘til I be best.” I just saw Richard III at the Folger Theater a few months back (here's my review), and I didn't remember that line. Turns out it belongs to Richard III but comes from Henry VI, Part 3, suggesting Mendes & Co. incorporated some material from other plays into their text, a common practice. The film never mentions they did it, though.
Minutes after we watch Spacey do the line in performance, we see a rehearsal clip where he delivers it in a dead-on impersonation of President Clinton.
David Belle and Paul Walker in Brick Mansions, a not-as-good remake of the French action film District B13.
When I was sixth grade I was in a terrible musical wherein the lady who would become, some years later, my first real girlfriend sang a song called "It always sounds better in French."
My review of Brick Mansions, the subpar American remake of the Francophone parkour movie District B13, is on The Village Voice now. Rest in peace, Paul Walker.
Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon in Last Passenger.
My review of Omid Nooshin's Last Passenger, a microbudget runaway-train thriller from Britain, is on The Dissolve today. Stars the reductively-named Scotsman Dougray Scott, the Man Who Woulda Been Wolverine.
Jonathan Daniel Brown (center, with glasses) plays real-life pot smuggler Nate Norman in Kid Cannabis.
John Stockwell's Kid Cannabis is a pretty good comedy about the intersection of youth and vice and enterprise and a so-so true-crime movie and a reasonably good coming-of-age flick. It's a lot more than you expect from a film called Kid Cannabis, certainly. Reviewed for The Dissolve.
