Tag Archives: Uncut Gems

OCFF 2025- 12 solid hours in the main theater

Posted on July 6, 2025 by reelentropy

I wouldn’t get up early yesterday for morning yoga – the correct choice, I only got halfway through the session I attended – but I delayed publishing, which is dangerous, so I could make the 11:45 curtain of Videoheaven. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Documented entropy | Tagged Alexi Wasser, David Lowery, David Lynch, Gypsy 83, Messy, OCFF 2025, Todd Stephens, Uncut Gems, Videoheaven | Leave a comment

OCFF ’25 Saturday: six solid hours in the upstairs theater

Posted on July 5, 2025 by reelentropy

Saturday, the one day that’s always clear and always has the main highlights. This fest it’s Fucktoys, a 16mm pre-millennium fantasy of a prostitute, played by writer/director/executive producer Annapurna Sriram, trying to work her way into enough cash that she … Continue reading →

Posted in Documented entropy | Tagged $Positions, Annapurna Sriram, Fucktoys, OCFF 2025, Removal of the Eye, Reveries: The Mind Prison, Texas Theatre, Uncut Gems | Leave a comment

Revisiting ‘Uncut Gems’ eight months later

Posted on August 16, 2020 by reelentropy

I’ve been revisiting a lot of recently streaming favorites in quarantine, and I wanted to take a few minutes to write about a movie that I don’t think I gave its due on initial examination. Uncut Gems is a frustrating … Continue reading →

Posted in A less chaotic state, Reel understanding | Tagged #adam sandler, Jewishness, Josh and Benny Safdie, Kevin Garnett, Schindler's List, The Song of Names, Uncut Gems | Leave a comment

The most important movies of 2019

Posted on January 10, 2020 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are dumb and arbitrary and I hate them, even as I’ve started doing them. We can do better here. Instead of a static list of 10 favorites, 10 peanuts with which to pack the year away … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #Disney, #martin scorsese, #quentin tarantino, #robert eggers, #spotlight, #star wars, #the lion king, 21 Bridges, A Hidden Life, Aladdin, Ari Aster, Avengers: Endgame, Avengers: Infinity War, Bird Box, Black and Blue, Box Office Mojo, Captain Marvel, Dark Waters, Dumbo, Frozen II, It: Chapter 2, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Jordan Peele, Josh and Benny Safdie, Maleficent 2, Midsommar, Official Secrets, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Parasite, Queen and Slim, Roma, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Disney Empire, The Irishman, The Lighthouse, The Mandalorian, The Report, Toy Story 4, Uncut Gems, Us | Leave a comment

Sandler’s sweaty, slimy fever dream ‘Uncut Gems’

Posted on January 8, 2020 by reelentropy

9/10 The opening shot of Uncut Gems is a long push. First, we go deep into a raw black opal, a cousin of which will become central to the plot, seeing, as they say you can, the entire universe in … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #adam sandler, #martin scorsese, Good Time, Kevin Garnett, Passover, Shavuot, the Safdie brothers, The Wolf of Wall Street, Uncut Gems | Leave a comment