Jason Siebels

Anette attempts to bring avant-garde theater to the screen, and succeeds in bringing pretentious, poorly written, absolutely idiotic visual images to screen. I wish I could at least say that the music by Sparks was at least somewhat redeemable, but there’s no lyricism to any of the songs, just monotonous repeated lyrics, with no insight or thought. This film is a morbid curiosity that you can either view once and be done with, or skip entirely.

A very interestlying done visual tone poem with a somewhat baffling ending. Not baffling in that I didn't understand it, but baffling in I didn't understand the filmakers choice to completely expunge the denouement of the original tale. Instead of delivering the final chapter of the tale, where the lord that Gwain is staying with is in fact the green knight, and that Gwain survives the encounter to return home, it's left open ended...which leaves the moral of the tale to be lost. Yes, Gwain finds his courage and faces his death, upholding his honor and the honor of his organization (after a "Last Temptation of Christ" cutaway), but without familiarity with the original source material the ending is needlessly ambigious. Perhaps it's that way to encourage people to find the tale, or tell it on their own, but it does leave a bit of a tarnish on what is otherwise an excellent and haunting film.

It’s often maligned given its predecessors, but Alien 3 is a fantastic, grounded meditation on the series that was meant to put a cap on Rilpley’s journey. It’s not a perfect film by any means, but it’s well done and succeeds far far more then it fails.

The Addams Family is what happens when an animation studio with no imagination or talent is thrown an existing property they have no idea what to do with. Predictable, lazy, and bland should never be used to describe these characters…but here we are.