Empire
It barely seemed possible, but Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon is an even more extreme exercise in high style, ponderous pacing and stomach-churning grue than Only God Forgives. And, unsurprisingly, it became the most divisive film of Cannes 2016, prompting both boos/walk-outs and standing ovations in roughly equal measures. Imagine America’s Next Top Model written by Sofia Coppola and directed by Dario Argento — it’s cool, baffling, darkly funny, super-slow, vapid, stunning to look at, at times tedious and in its last third utterly bat-shit crazy. A cult-y Showgirls afterlife beckons.
Possession films are a dime a dozen with tons of motion pictures about people spewing pea soup when those pesky demons occupy and live rent free in their bodies.
Inside Out 2 has got to be the animation movie of the year for me so far. It had everything I wanted from the original and so much more I never could have anticipated. From the very first opening scene with that nostalgic, wholesome piano keys of the theme sound from the first movie, it was like my soul was transported back into the feelings the first movie brought about while bringing me wholly into the world of the sequel.
This horror movie-inspired virtual pinball table is a bloody good time (sorry).
