Lars Von Trier’s Nyphomaniac Vol. I is, unfortunately, disappointing. Perhaps it’s because it comes on the heels of astonishingly profound films like Antichrist and Melancholia. Certainly, the former has been misunderstood as misogynistic propaganda with a load of shock value and the latter has been largely dismissed because of a comment about the Nazi aesthetic being taken […]

 

 

Like his misogynist personality that overshadowed the critically ignored but socially relevant Antichrist, Lars von Trier – with the help of truncated sound bites taken out of context – submarined the recognition of his follow up, Melancholia. If there’s nothing else we can learn from both von Triar and Oliver Stone, it’s wise to remember that any […]

 

 

  I’m not one for listening intently to animals, but when one is self-disemboweling and mangy, you might as well take heed.   Turn around Willem Defoe! Your unnamed wife is brandishing a grindstone and is about to fasten it to your leg after she bores a hole through your ankle with a screwdriver!  I guess it […]