David Robert Mitchell
For a movie that supposedly criticizes what it portrays and updates the film noir for 2019 and , Under the Silver Lake comes up embarrassingly short.
While a bit rough around the edges, Under the Silver Lake is one of those films that you’ll be lucky to experience even in light of its flaws, and stands as an astounding sophomore effort.
Gus Edgar reports from Cannes Film Festival, where he saw Solo: A Star Wars Story, Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, and more, and lists the winners of the festival’s Awards.
Get ready to follow a new mystery from David Robert Mitchell in Under the Silver Lake, which looks to be a nice stretch from his breakout, It Follows.
With the blockbuster success of Fifty Shades of Grey in cinemas worldwide, many pundits are claiming that this marks a new era for “sex positive” movies – and much more importantly, the basic idea of a woman being as sexually open as her male counterparts not being a source of cinematic shame, but one of pride. It has only been two decades since what I dub the “unofficial Michael Douglas misogyny trilogy” of Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct and Disclosure hit cinemas, films that (like Fifty Shades) were successful due to their frankness of sexuality. Yet those movies were inherently misogynist in suggesting that women were mentally unstable, or just plain evil for daring to be as open about their sexuality as men.