Out to own today:
My Entire High School Sinking Into TheSea
 | “This is what they call upward social mobility,” Dash (Jason Schwartzman) MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA is RUSHMORE meets THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. Droll animated hilarity within a disaster movie, which is also a high school film. Dash and Assaf (Reggie Watts) are two dorkily entertaining best friends - think Greg and Earl in ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL. Part of their small gang is Verti (Maya Rudolph), who does not raise the traditional cool level. (Though they are engaging, eloquent beyond their years, and deserve to be at the pinnacle of the teenage social hierarchy.) “I like turgid prose,” Dash. Jason Schwartzman has trademarked the self-inflated sense of self. Improving on his RUSHMORE precocity cannot be done, so why try? For those pining for Wes Anderson’s best film, MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA fills the aching void. [To read more, click here.] |
Walking Out
 | “It’s like the memory of a memory,” David (Josh Wiggins) This is a slightly hokey TV movie of the week, fathers and sons melodrama, set in the wilderness. Humans against nature should always be exciting. Director Werner Herzog has spent his career, in narrative features and documentaries, talking about our relationship with the wild. Cinema likes to show the notion that if something can go wrong it will. From 127 HOURS to EVEREST, the silver screen wants us to tread carefully, and with plenty of backup. In the middle of nowhere, of course without phone signal, the lead duo has nobody but themselves. Mountain rescue, in this neck of the woods, seems to be non-existent. One guesses when you have a continent-sized country, resources are going to be spread thinly. So, they are believably isolated. [To read more, click here.] |
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