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Piper Meets a Psychopath: Insanityinspo 10 films
Director, writer, and actor Nicole Elliott sat down with Hyperreal's Justin Norris and revealed 10 movies that inspired her short…
(Some of) The Best Movies about Movies 11 films
In honor of this week's showing of Crime Wave (not the Coen brothers one), let's take a look at some…
Hyperreal Film Club’s Best Movies of 2023: Honorable Mentions and Editors’ Choice 10 films
A top 10 list is, by its very nature, a limited format: There can only be 10 movies, and those…
Recent reviews
The Top! Few guys made it! On the east coast, it was John Waters, whose diabolical dames and sly sense of humor baffled, bemused, and buoyed Baltimore! From the midwest, there was David Lynch, the boy scout charmer with a taste for transcendental meditation and a brain from another dimension! The west coast belonged to Paul Reubens who'd built his pee-wee-sized playhouse into a prodigious empire! Yes, it seemed as if the field of offbeat '50s-Americana-styled comedies with a darker…
“Jimmie and I spent a year living on a small sailboat. This was in 2008. During that experience, we quit our job, sold all of our stuff, and sailed from Oregon to Baja. Since then, we’ve always felt this push and pull between regular life and the attraction of going off the grid, being free and loose, similar to the Jomar character in the movie. For us, this is an examination of the good and bad things about toeing the…
Based on Siddhartha, this thinly veiled gay cowboy love story follows the adventures of two best friends turned gunslingers, who set out for better lives and find themselves (wink, wink) in the process. This tongue-in-cheek, acid-fueled adventure follows the aspiring outlaws through bank robberies, saloon shootouts, border towns, and other shenanigans typical of the western genre, mashed up with the hippie counter-culture values and aesthetic like you've never seen before (or since).
"Even when the body is composed of nothing but wires, sound waves, and electrical energy, it must fit their standard. And, of course, our girls comply because this is simply the territory that comes with being a woman; sacrificing boundaries, innocence, identity, morality–consensual or not–in order to get by. This is true in nearly all dimensions of a woman’s life, but especially when it comes to her body."
- Katie Williams
You can read the rest of Katie's analysis of Girl 6 over on the Hyperreal site!
"Armed with a small city’s worth of massive sets and an army of fog machines, Hark conjures an expressionistic spirit-world incomparable to western fantasy films. Green Snake’s entertainment value is powered equally by wacky practical special effects and broad physical comedy–witness the snake sisters’ twisty-bendy strut as they adjust to their unfamiliar human forms. Maggie Cheung, who captivated Western art house audiences a few years later in Olivier Assayas’ meta-thriller Irma Vep, shines in her original form as a bona…
"Wildly unpredictable and chaotic from start to finish, The Heroic Trio strikes a balance between grim plotlines and slapstick humor. To unflinchingly embellishes The Heroic Trio with cannibalistic children, decapitations, and one psychotic sewer-dwelling eunuch with a stupid amount of power in one moment, and then offers lighthearted reprieves the next. It’s kitschy and overly silly at times, but also relentlessly twisted. With The Heroic Trio, To crafted a Charlie’s Angels precursor fit with campy stylistic elements akin to early…
"On the surface, Popcorn is what the average filmgoer would come to expect from a slasher. The gimmick of having a movie killer on the prowl in a movie theater while an audience is watching a movie is cute. It might remind the real-life viewer that they are in an audience watching a movie with a killer stalking people in an audience watching a movie. But that is not what makes Popcorn so much fun. It’s the movies within the movie that steal the show."
- Bailey Moore
Read the rest of Bailey's thoughts over on the Hyperreal site!
"'Shot over ten intense (and hot) days in August 2019,' Inspector Ike first came knocking for me during the pandemic. Like Inherent Vice, it luxuriates in a parallel universe pleasantly askew, right next door to our own. Styled as a “lost” weekly movie feature, it speaks to an imagined audience of 1970s New York City weeknight TV viewers. In the world of Inspector Ike, the criminals are dopey, disgruntled understudies and trust-fund schemers, and the police are equally daffy do-gooders…