It’s not that I can’t tell a killer whale from a serial rapist — it’s simply that the dumbest puns sometimes amuse most, especially when they offer mild relief for otherwise unbearibly grim tales of doomed love and ill-fated desires. Benten’s fourth DVD release Der Freie Wille (The Free Will) streeted last week (yes, it’s [...]
The story I picked is "The Snowbank" by Shelagh Power-Chopra and the very concept--taken from a life event Shelagh read about evidently--is exquisite: a man finds himself stuck in a snowbank. [Read more] Recently: Checking In With Metazen Fictionaut Five: Michael Kimball Luna Digest, 3/9 […]
Bong Joon-ho's new film Mother is a hard one to pin down. On the surface, the South Korean filmmaker, who successfully toyed with genre conventions in The Host and Memories of Murder, has created a classic sleuth story. The story of a devoted mother who attempts to prove her son's innocence after he is arrested of murder is also surprisingly funn […]
Free Willy
It’s not that I can’t tell a killer whale from a serial rapist — it’s simply that the dumbest puns sometimes amuse most, especially when they offer mild relief for otherwise unbearibly grim tales of doomed love and ill-fated desires. Benten’s fourth DVD release Der Freie Wille (The Free Will) streeted last week (yes, it’s [...]