Tag: Alex Winter

Destroy All Neighbors is All Out Spatterpunk!

Anyone looking for a spritual riff on Evil Dead II will find Destroy All Neighbors just as delirious and fun!

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Alex Winter totally slays it in Destroy All Neighbors, a very twisted horror comedy about William Brown (Jonah Ray Rodrigues) trying to finish an album and all his apartment neighbours are rowdy. When all the noise is only adding to this musician’s neurosis, he’s eventually going to crack. Eventually, he takes matters into his own hands (hence the film title) and what happens next is utterly bonkers.

After one “accidental” death of Vlad (Winter), what he does next looks fairly typical for someone who’s finally gone over the edge. I haven’t loved such a film about guilt since American Werewolf in London. The characters whom Brown accidentally takes down are wonderfully wild. The strength in those performances sells this film, and the fun that goes on–whether imagined–totally goes downtown when they come back to life!

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Bill & Ted Face the Music and Their Franchise Future

There’s some story to like in Bill and Ted Face the Music, but ultimately, it’s about the next generation and what they can do to help their dads.

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Bill and Ted still have an insurmountable task to accomplish in Face the Music. They still have to make that song to bring harmony to the universe. The pseudoscience and sociology behind being able to achieve that is hard to grasp as not even the Oa who created the Green Lantern Corps can promise universal peace. As cinema’s most lovable doofuses would say, being happy means being excellent to each other.

The story by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon is not too perplexing. Time travel stories often struggle with its own internal logic, and this film is no different.

The film is brilliant at realizing this mantra because the future shelves of Bill and Ted simply forget their own credo and need reminders. They are cruel to their past shelves. It’s sort of funny, but I can’t help but wonder when each future iteration decided to be nasty. Part of it has to do with how they failed as musicians. Sadly, the film doesn’t spend any time about them as family men. Their wives are concerned for their wellbeing and suggested couples therapy to “separate” them. Just why their kids adore their fathers is mind-boggling.

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