Joey Magidson
Welcome back to my Home Movies! This week, we have the wonderful early year surprise Lisa Frankenstein leading the charge. However, today also includes a lot of other little titles worth your while. They include Fallen Leaves, It’s a Wonderful Knife, and Which Brings Me to You. Read on for more…
Lisa Frankenstein
I was delighted by Lisa Frankenstein. Pitch black, funny, but full of both heart and wit, it has so much to offer. That it wasn’t a hit with audiences truly bummed me out. However, you all have a second bite at the apple here on home video. Let my rave review here inspire you, including this opening salvo about Zelda Williams and Diablo Cody‘s little gem:
You all know that I love when a movie sneaks up on me. The talent involved in Lisa Frankenstein had me very intrigued. After all, I love Diablo Cody‘s writing, Kathryn Newton has impressed me on more than one occasion, and I was eager to see Zelda Williams up to bat. Even so, I was expecting to probably be amused by this flick, at worst. So, consider me almost shocked at how much I out and out loved this film. Lisa Frankenstein is one of my favorite films of the year so far, which I did not have on my dance card. Regardless, this is a wild gem.
Lisa Frankenstein is Heathers by way of, you know, Frankenstein. It’s almost as if the best elements of Tim Burton have been filtered away from his worst impulses, put into a blender with the Mary Shelley classic, and sprinkled with Cody’s specific sort of dialogue. It may sound like a weird mix, but trust me that it works in a massive way. I had an amazing time with this film.
Doom Patrol: The Complete Fourth and Final Season (TV)
It’s a Wonderful Knife (Interview here with writer Michael Kennedy)
Monster
Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey
Picnic at Hanging Rock
From The Criterion Collection: “This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all-female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.”
Stay tuned for more next week…
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