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Cocaine Bear by Jonny Numb
Cocaine Bear: The Horror, The Horror My minimal understanding of artificial intelligence is as follows: it’s what happens when humanity gets smart enough to put menial tasks in the hands of machines, since machines can produce the same – if not better – results. This makes sense, as we lazy-ass humans have important things to…
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Skinamarink by Jonny Numb
Skinamarink: An Inherent Risk I like ambiguous movies, but they carry an inherent risk: the outcome winds up either being worth your time, or a grift that leaves you feeling angry and cheated. I front-load a lot of good faith toward experimental movies, but at some point, the experiment needs to deliver – at least…
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Allegoria by Jonny Numb
Allegoria: Shock Rock to Film It’s interesting to see how folks from other creative disciplines fare when they make the jump to film. Maybe it’s no surprise that novelists like Clive Barker and William Peter Blatty made auspicious transitions to directing features (both had screenplay experience), as narrative storytelling was already flowing through their veins.…
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Death Game and Knock Knock by Jonny Numb
Double Feature: Death Game and Knock Knock Death Game: Bad Times Ahead Peter Traynor’s Death Game is a strange bird: the simple plot has financially successful father George Manning (Seymour Cassel) home alone while his wife rushes off to address an out-of-town emergency with one of their children. Cue a rainstorm that brings two soaked…
