Jeff Zhang 张佶润
@strangeharbors
Film critic. Strange Harbors is a site exploring the shores of movies, television, and pop culture. https://boxd.it/19QYl
Free programming idea: AFTERSUN and TRAP. Comparmentalized frames; the grasping terror of being perceived as a parent; wistfully watching your pre-teen child performing on stage for a crowd; pop songs as plot pivot points; melancholy farewell hugs.
Watching TRAP again; “wouldn’t it be unbelievable to see what’s down there?”
Some of our greatest artists have bad opinions and complete blinders on and that’s OK
James Cameron calls OPPENHEIMER a "moral cop-out" for not showing Japanese bombing aftermath (via @DEADLINE) "I felt that it dodged the subject" tinyurl.com/2tprkzfr
Wake up honey, the porn bots are posting Verhoeven’s Black Book.
NEED
David Corenswet sat right next to me on the East River Ferry five minutes after I posted that the Superman trailer looked bad
share a piece of lore about yourself
MF really said “thrown around” three times in one paragraph. I deserve to be shot in the back of the head.
Initial thoughts on Eddington
Do you even hear yourselves?
‘Basic Instinct’ Is Getting an ‘Anti-Woke’ Reboot by OG Screenwriter and Amazon MGM’s United Artists indiewire.com/news/breaking-…
Superman post-credits the best since Bruce Campbell yelling “It’s over!” at the end of Multiverse of Madness
I love to play this game because all it takes is two clicks to get to an answer and the answer is always something like, “three days ago.”
idc what anyone thinks about some movie but i'm just curious... when was the last time this guy liked a movie?
Film criticism, when done well, is supposed to make you think deeper about a film and engage with it in more complex ways. It is not really meant to decide for the entire population whether or not they should see something. You all have agency. You get to decide that yourself.
Superman really is the perfect storm rolling together some of the most annoying discourses of the past decade into one. App is unusable for the next week.
“Hypno-glasses” is the exact type of Silver Age nonsense that was tailor-made for me, but on the other hand, it sucks that there’s an entire visual language and art to blocking that has straight-up evaporated from our movies.
New clip from James Gunn’s ‘SUPERMAN’ “I’m not saying who he is, just that he wears hypno-glasses, they make his face look different in your brain so you don’t know who he is” Read our review: bit.ly/SupesDF
there's never been a time in the history of cinema as hostile toward verhoeven's artistic proclivities as right now, and it's exactly why we need this. somebody give the man his money.
PAUL VERHOEVEN struggling to finance YOUNG SINNER because it’s “politically and sexually very provocative.” Set in the political world of Washington DC, the film tackles “an evangelical Christian girl who really likes sex.” tinyurl.com/ymavah7c
I try to find an excuse to post this clip at least once every 6 months
Best transition ever filmed?
Y’all can mock me, but I 1000% stand by what I said yesterday. Your view of the IDF changes when you visit Israel. It really just is everyone’s kids doing mandatory service for their country. The day I visited an IDF base I had to wait 20 minutes for my escort. And I’m sitting…
Y’all can mock me, but I 1000% stand by what I said yesterday. Your view of the IDF changes when you visit Israel. It really just is everyone’s kids doing mandatory service for their country. The day I visited an IDF base I had to wait 20 minutes for my escort. And I’m sitting…
I'll bite. Just how I feel today and in no particular order:
