Mister Organ (2022) - Movie Review

 

“This is the weirdest film I’ve seen all year.”

That was my immediate reaction to this New Zealand doco once the credits started rolling, but thinking back on it, it doesn’t seem that strange. It’s the story of a man who, by director David Farrier’s own admission, is fucking boring, and it starts out looking at the titular Mr. Organ and his involvement in a bout of aggressive car-clamping outside of an antiques shop in Auckland, New Zealand. But as both Farrier and the audience are drawn deeper into Organ’s endless supply of shaggy dog stories and bewilderingly frequent court appearances, the effect created is beyond surreal.

Come To Daddy (2020) - Movie Review

Time for another ride on the Elijah Wood fucked-up indie train, although we’re not dealing with a Spectrevision production this time around. Instead, we’re looking at the feature-length directorial debut of Ant Timpson, a New Zealand film producer better known for spearheading the horror anthology series The ABCs Of Death, as well as his profoundly graphic production logo at the front of previous review subject The Greasy Strangler. And with the writer of Greasy Strangler, Toby Harvard, in tow, chances are this is going to be something uniquely bizarre.

The Greasy Strangler (2016) - Movie Review (1000th Post Special)

Well, this is going to be a very special review. This marks my 1000^th blog post, a number that has steadily built up over the past five years, encompassing movie reviews, lists, articles looking at my critical influences, and a few one-off experiments that didn’t really make it off the ground. What began with a spur-of-the-moment trip with friends to see a One Direction concert film has grown (or possibly mutated; the lab results are inconclusive as of yet) into not only an uneven-yet-prolific amount of writing material but also a chance to write for proper publications and even getting into doing podcasts. None of this would have been possible without my dear readers, every one of you who has ever taken the time to read what this uneducated dude has to say about the latest releases. I humbly thank all of you out there, and here’s to a thousand more.