I watched a short Letterboxd reel of PTA spilling his top 4 movies and he went on at length about how all of his movies have traces of Apocalypse Now in them. I could see the same in The Master and There Will Be Blood but what about the more Hughes and Linklaterish ts? I digress...

Having read Heart of Darkness twice in college, watching Apocalypse Now hits quite different from my last sitting circa 2006; rather than visually ingratiating…

A sobering work of investigative journalism, Q: Into the Storm breathed some hope into my taste for modern documentaries. Although procedurally quite fair to its subjects, the film can feel a bit of a puff-piece to some incorrigible folks; clearly Mr. Cullen trusts his audiences to form their own opinions about the twisted subject-jesters that love to dance in the dark muck of the DMZ between free speech and words of violent incitement.

Why is the film successful then, in…

Raoul Peck puts me in a difficult position with Exterminate All the Brutes; as an avid fan of Heart of Darkness and firm believer that colonial narratives need serious restructuring, my interest in the substance of this docies couldn't be understated. My unfortunate issue, although understandable given Peck's personal story and obvious raging anger, is the aggressive mess of the procedural exposition of how African/Native civilizations were systematically plundered and erased from planet Earth.

I would never begrudge anyone for…