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Dune – A Baroque Sculpted Mess/A Very Long March Across Shifting Sands — Wannabe Film Critic
Today’s films both have the same name. The first is David Lynch’s 1984 Dune a cult classic or complete travesty depending on one’s point of view, and indeed there are many to consider. The other Dune is Denis Villeneuve’s 2021’s offering which seems to be garnering acclaim throughout the criticsphere. Naturally here at Wannabe Film […]… Read more
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The Apprentice
“The Master” is the sequel to an earlier work; “The Apprentice” The Apprentice
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The Master
Ever since the day of the Fateful light, the Holy light, the Celestial light or whatever the historians in the high fingered towers called it, Frizzlefish, had been depressed. Initially he had been cross that he had missed the alignment, well cross was a little bit of an understatement… perhaps livid had come closer to… Read more
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American Animals and the Unreliability of Narrative Perception — Wannabe Film Critic
American Animals is a 2018 film directed by Bart Layton. Claiming to be based on a true story it uses a mix of acted scenes interspersed with “talking heads” style reminisces with the people from whom the story is inspired. The event that is alluded to in American Animals was a 2004 attempt at an […]… Read more
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‘Withnail and I’ – the End of An Age(s)?
Originally posted on Wannabe Film Critic:
It is probably about time I got round to writing a review, or rather, a meditation on the 1987 film Withnail and I. Besides being one of my all time favourite films I believe it’s worthy of some genteel dissection and maybe a little critical discussion. That said, a… -
Kurt Vonnegut, the myth of free will, happiness and the 20th Century
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all I first encountered Kurt Vonnegut’s books one sunny afternoon on the south coast of England. Someone had lent me a copy of Slaughterhouse Five to read a few weeks prior and I had slipped it into my rucksack before starting my first… Read more
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