Moo Moo Movie Reviews

One of Akira Kurosawa's later films, Dreams is a very hard movie to discuss, let alone review. It's a strange yet beautiful look at the surreal nature of our subconscious thought while also covering a broad range of themes. Beneath this movie's beauty is a tempered warning of humanity's destruction of the natural world we reside in. The movie has no central plot, rather, it relies on eight dreams that Kurosawa had, tied together by its central theme of a natural force at work. The dreams stretch from an apocalyptic hellscape to a beautiful village of watermills.  I struggle to write a review on this film like my past reviews. It's not possible to fully theorize each of the dreams as it's incredibly ambiguous and allows for endless interpretation. Perhaps they weren't meant to be interpreted literally, rather meant to be observed and their themes pondered on much like when Kurosawa first dreamt them. The dreams are deeply personal to Akira, with the main...

Ari Aster's 2019 Swedish cult movie started with a bang, drawing me in immediately. The first scene is gripping and haunting, as the camera slowly pans up and enters the carbon monoxide filled house. In an effort to dart around spoilers, I'll stop here and encourage readers to first watch the movie but needless to say Midsommar begins perfectly, setting the tone and theme that will dictate what the rest of the movie will be like. But then, the movie slowly falls from its interesting premise and into its surrealist abyss. The plot runs as follows: Dani (Pugh) and Christian (Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, a grieving Dani invites herself to join Christian and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite t...