Tag Archives: Jesse Plemons

Review: Bugonia and Crime 101

Posted on February 13, 2026 by philipbrasor

Though I don’t remember many of the particulars of Jang Joon-hwan’s iconic environmental thriller Save the Green Planet!, which I only saw once when it first came out in 2003, its creepy uniqueness has somehow lingered. It’s one of those … Continue reading →

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Review: Civil War

Posted on October 4, 2024 by philipbrasor

Alex Garland’s extrapolation of the current U.S. crisis of cultural division to its most extreme ends is very disturbing not just because of the ultra-violence on display but also due to its purposeful vagueness. The second American civil war is … Continue reading →

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Review: Kinds of Kindness

Posted on September 26, 2024 by philipbrasor

Kinds of Cruelty would be a more accurate title for Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest movie, but in line with the director’s often skewed view of human foibles and how those foibles can be dramatized, he frames his uniformly unpleasant characters in … Continue reading →

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