Inherent Vice

...Standing on the toenails of genre

To explain the slug, it’s the image of those artsy types who think they know about crime/scifi/action than the genre masterminds, mistaking a bird’s eye view for a worm’s.

Look.

Genre filmmaking is fucking hard, because you have to make it seem transparent.  Underlining your points in clunky metaphors and suicides at the end is for people who can’t hack it in genre.  There’s a coach gym metaphor in here somewhere, and I should know.  I made Treasure Island.  Which makes it...read more

The Shape of Water

High Life