Showing posts with label James Wan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Wan. Show all posts

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Dishes Served Cold

     We draw November to a close with four courses of revenge severed at the proper temperatures.

     The first entry in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy. Ryu is desperate to get his sister the transplant she needs. Dong-jin is desperate to get his young daughter returned to him safely. When their paths are set on a collision, the bloody trail of bodies doesn't undermine your Sympathy for Mr Vengeance.
     Nick Hume witnesses his eldest son be brutally murdered in a gang initiation. When he learns of the system's offer, he decides to take his own course of payback. Soon Nick is in deeper than he imagined and his remaining family is at risk as the gang's own revenge begins. For every action they all find a Death Sentence.
     Thana, a mute seamstress working in New York's Garment District, is raped at gun point. She survives the attack and stumbles home. Only to find a burglar in her apartment, who decides to rape her a second time. Being constantly under different attacks from the dangerously gendered city, Thana soon starts going out at night to avenge herself on the city's predators. Lessening the subgenre's usual fantasy for a slightly more grounded, though still highly exploitation driven, exploration of the trauma, rage, and fear women experience in the everyday in the world... Ms .45. 
     Three working women are pushed too far by their sexist, bigoted, egomaniacal, hypocrite of a boss. When their flight of fancy accidentally spill into the office, they seize a bold plan to keep their boss in line through mutually assured destruction. They get it all done between 9 to 5.
     All that and Dave used a song from we are lady parts (which you should watch), Tyler dreams in Capcom isometric horror, and after a fall down the stairs Kevin now lives in a noir hellscape.
     Join us, won't you?
Episode 233- Dishes Served Cold


Saturday, September 18, 2021

Debauching Virulent Chevalier

    This week three auteur works with single character focuses. 

     Fleeing from her husband with a bag full of cash, Bridget gets stuck in the small upstate town of Beston and tries to lie low  there by taking an assumed name and temporary job. She also starts what should be a fun affair with local, Mike. Unfortunately, her husband won't let her go so easily and Mike becomes ever more possessive and clingy. Will Bridget get free or will this be The Last Seduction?
     A cipher wonders around Los Angeles and Las Vegas with a revolving cast of interchangeable people who are assigned tarot identifiers. Freely shifting from dream to memory to current experience all overdubbed with stream-of-conscious monologues. Will the Knight of Cups wake when he finds The Pearl?
     The director that keeps laying golden franchises tries his luck a fourth time with the story of a woman and the potentially supernatural killer she is somehow connected to. Will it strike gold a fourth time of has this Malignant imagination stalled?
     All this and Dave is locked in a basement, Kevin endures sunny skies, and Tyler stalks at night. Join us, won't you?

   Episode 223- Debauching Virulent Chevalier