Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me

   Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me is one of the most flat out disturbing films ever made under the sun, even if only for a few brief, harrowing sequences encased in a lurid, laconic, southern fried oddity of a story that defies genre confinement while still planting vague roots in crime drama. When the … More Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me

The High And The Hopeless: Mark Pellington’s I Melt With You

I Melt With You is an easy film to dismiss as crass, unnecessary nihilism. It’s easy to look at the four wealthy, healthy main characters and scoff at the idea that they are in any kind of turmoil or crisis, and patronize them for going to the staggering lengths of excess portrayed in this film. … More The High And The Hopeless: Mark Pellington’s I Melt With You