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IR Film Review: MOSQUITO STATE [Shudder]
With a film like "Mosquito State", the horror is bathed more in the metaphor of the life it is building and destroying at the same time.
IR Film Review: RISING WOLF [Samuel Goldwyn]
Instead of creating a more grounded structure, the film realizes itself more with abstract imagery and flashbacks per se with some CG enhancements (whose indications are unclear at best).
IR Film Review: THE SWARM [Netflix]
In "The Swarm", hailing from France, there is a sense of loss and longing in the character of Valerie (played Suliane Brahim) who is growing locusts to create flour. But like anything...too much becomes overwhelming.
IR Film Review: THE SUICIDE SQUAD [Warner Brothers]
The rules of a comic book movie rule in the eyes of the beholder. Writer/Director James Gunn got to go in a different grid making "The Suicide Squad" but it feels more like his indie movies at times than "Guardians Of The Galaxy".
IR Film Review: THE GREEN KNIGHT [A24]
The story is based on the lore of anonymous writer but that basis might have indicated jealousy, greed or nepotism criticism in a certain way on the part of the writer who may have been an unreliable narrator.
IR Film Review: JUNGLE CRUISE [Disney]
"Jungle Cruise" is a fun ride but not really anything new. Its plot points can be pulled almost directly from "The Mummy" with modern inclusion standards updating (which again is understandable).
IR Film Review: OLD [Universal]
Suffice to say, "Old" has an idea of the metaphorical story it wants to tell while reflecting a real world ideal of what is for the greater good.
IR Film Review: BLOOD RED SKY [Netflix]
But for general entertainment of the action bent with a genre twist, "Blood Red Sky" does deliver but not overtly beyond its intended means.
IR Film Review: KANDISHA [Shudder]
With "Kandisha" it is a mix of many different elements both with textures of Islam but also mythology. In a modern context it is intriguing because this mythology in general talks about a female almost centaur coming to take the lives of the men because of their transgressions.