These ‘best of’ lists are always a bit of a pain to write and to read. You usually start out scanning the list for stuff you’ve seen and loved, and then you probably count the number of movies you’ve seen. Sometimes you finish the list feeling like you’ve seen the right things, and sometimes you …
You know the routine. You’re watching a movie and a scene comes up and something seems familiar about it. It’s not the writing. It’s not the direction. It’s not the acting. Ah, there it is- it’s the soundtrack.
Tell me what you think of this premise, its the late 70s, and a bunch of middle classed teenagers contracts an STD called “the bug,” and turns them into social outcasts. This is the subject of David Fincher’s next film. He has signed on to direct an adaptation of Charles Burns’ graphic novel, Black Hole. …