In Which There Are Other Things to Write Hello, Thursday is normally the day of the week where the reading public excitedly updates the Avocado for the latest installment in Millennial Malaise, the only series dedicated to movies made between … Continue reading Millennial Malaise is Taking the Week Off
The Avocado watches the Watchmen, and chat it up. Full spoiler discussion below. Continue reading Watchmen Watch: Episode 3 “She Was Killed by Space Junk”
In Which Sometimes I Doubt Your Commitment to Sparkle Motion As the 90’s slunk into the 2000’s our titular angst changed. Instead of the nervous tittering about some grand event in the face of the oncoming clock turn, the woes … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 40: Donnie Darko
The Avocado watches the Watchmen and discusses it here. Continue reading Wathcmen Watch: Episode 2 “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship”
In Which There are Ghosts in the Modems The paradox of modernity is thus: we live a world with more people than ever, closer together, and with more forms of communication than ever, and yet we feel incredibly isolated and … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 39: Pulse
This Chinese Neo-Noir has a Lot of Flash, But Doesn’t Add Up to Much More Than a Standard Thriller It’s raining. Late night at a bus station, a woman approaches a man. Her face obscured by a opaque umbrella. It … Continue reading SFIFF Review: The Wild Goose Lake
Noah Baumbach’s Divorce Drama is a Deeply Felt Tale of Undying Love Undone Marriage Story was a movie that I was incredibly skeptical of going in. Director Noah Baumbach is a filmmaker of extreme specificity and hyper-literacy, drilling deep into the … Continue reading SFIFF Review: Marriage Story
Destin Daniel Cretton’s Death Row Legal Drama is Sturdy and not Much Else The difference solid and stolid is a thin line, and in the world of prestige filmmaking it’s a line that is incredibly hard walk. Many movies want … Continue reading SFIFF Review: Just Mercy
In Which It’s Very Hard to get Lost in America These Days In the many retrospective pieces about 1999’s The Blair Witch Project I’ve read there’s a common refrain that’s intoned again and again: the movie has a unique power because we … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 38: The Blair Witch Project
In Which We’ve Met Before, Haven’t We. David Lynch has always been an underground filmmaker. Throughout his career Lynch’s narratives have snaked around the world to find the throbbing and humming forces that crawl just beneath the surface. That the … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 37: Lost Highway
In Which It’s the Millennium and Motives are Incidental The 90’s were an odd duck of a decade for the horror genre. Since, oh say about the mid 50’s, horror films enjoyed an existence of being the mainline to the … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 36: Scream
In Which I Make a Schedule Hello guys and ghouls (and all those in between). It’s that time of year again, when the leaves turn, and the veil between this world and the next grows ever thinner. Yes the parade … Continue reading Millennial Malaise Gets Spooky
In Which You’re Nobody Unless You’re on TV If film was the medium of the 20th century, than television is the form of the 21st century. This truism is one of things that feels like a trite oversimplification of the … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 35: To Die For
In Which Ice-T is a Mutant Kangaroo I will admit that Millennial Malaise is not an entirely above the board affair. Yes these articles are expressly made for the purpose to explore the recent history of film, but there’s a … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 34: Tank Girl
In Which You Should Check Out Blues Hammer If I were a smarter writer I would have saved this entry for much further down the road. Perhaps on the sunset of this series of articles. Not only does Terry Zwigoff’s … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 33: Ghost World
In Which You’re More of a Vibe The 90’s were a nostalgic time. Not like the nostalgia we have now, which yearns for a past of simplicity and relief from existential dread, but a dream of a time with purpose. … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 32: The Limey
Hey everybody, it’s your pal Jeremy here to say that I was incredibly busy with work and holiday stuff this week and didn’t get around to finishing (or if we’re being honest starting) the piece on The Limey. Feel free … Continue reading Millennial Malaise: Oops I was busy
In Which Pizza can be Ordered Online The most notable thing about the 1995 cyber thriller The Net is that Sandra Bullock orders a pizza. After a tough day of bug hunting a copy of Wolfenstein 3D and chatting up randos online, programmer Angela … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 31: The Net
In Which the Serial Killer is Coming From Inside the Computer As I finished watching Virtuosity, the 1995 film by Brett Leonard (him of Lawnmower Man fame) about rogue serial killer AI Sid 6.7 (Russell Crow) and a the disgraced cop Parker Barnes (Denzel … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 30: Virtuosity
In Which This is All For You. The 90’s were the perfect decade for the full flowering of modern conspiracy theories. Here we have a culture where the past eight decades of existence were defined by the greatest conflicts of … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 29: The Game
In Which Tourists are Parasites From our perch entering the third decade of the 21st century there is a nostalgic romanticism to the world of travel of the recent past. That in the brief blip of history that was the … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 28: The Beach
