KEVIN CORRIGAN CHECKS IN
** "I grew up in the Bronx, and there were these characters everywhere. And when I started to see movies like Mean Streets and Dog Day Afternoon, they seemed to mirror what I was familiar with already. And I thought, who knows, if I hadn't become an actor I perhaps would have become one of these characters - it just seems it was my destiny, these were the kinds of stories I was destined to the telling of..."
If That Mockingbird Don't Sing, Deli Boys, Goodfellas, Bernie Eggs - and Playing Jerry Rubin In Steal This Movie: A Conversation With Kevin Corrigan And Sadie Bones. And what it's like directing her badass dad in her first movie, premiering at the Soho Film Festival - while recollecting growing up on Corrigan's screen procession of 'criminals, drug dealers, addicts, kidnappers, rapists, drunks, bank robbers and hitmen' - and the occasional nice guy portrayal in John Sayles' Walking And Talking...
** "We all almost died Saturday..."
Doomsday, Armageddon, And Nuclear War - Pacifica Host Garland Nixon and guest Scott Ritter sort out the odds. Referencing Ukraine, Britain, storm shadow missiles, 72 minutes, Spock and the guy in the little red suit.
** "I awoke one day it was early September...A prisoner in my own land..."
Arts Express Playhouse - Political Prisoner Requiem For Victor Jara And The Other 9/11 From Behind Bars: A solo reading and interpretation of the state of the world by Mitchel Cohen...
** "If anything, it's like a wild ride on a philosophical roller coaster - where every twist and turn leads us to ponder why we keep getting stuck in the same loop of capitalist nonsense..."
UK Desk: Anti-Oculus - A Philosophy of Escape. A literary analysis of The Acid Horizon Collective 'in a world where our every move is tracked, where the mundane and profound are woven into a tangled mess of algorithms and social expectations, this book challenges us to question not just the systems that govern our lives, but the very fabric of our reality...'
Wolfs Review: Noir Gets A Deep State Makeover
Seemingly running counter to the prevailing video game genre on screen, Wolfs is mostly slow burn justified paranoia philosophically rather than conventionally from the starting gate. With protagonist underground crime scene fixers George Clooney and Brad Pitt not so much targets of the mob bosses, but rather pawns symbolically of the surveillance deep state takeover in this country, digitally and otherwise.
And in that makeover mobster genre where demoralized if not clueless recruits more often than not metaphorically reflect the US imperialist exploited working class soldiers thrust into endless wars minus any detected end game - these Wolfs with that signature contemporary digital language reinvention as a sublimated rebellious urge, are relegated themselves, thrust into an imaginary world of thwarted machismo controlled by an invisible, take your pick criminal underground morphed into personified deep state forces. Where the ending to this Jon Watts (Spider-Man series) written and directed elusive caper unveils, any unlikely and seemingly incidental figure may be suspect.
Designated simply as 'Man' one and two, they find themselves inexplicably summoned separately to their surprise, to secretly clean up a crime scene involving a presumably dead young man overdosing on a stash of heroin he's been assigned to deliver, he knows not to whom exactly - and in a plush hotel room during a one night tryst interlude with an older female Manhattan DA (Amy Ryan). So essentially we're presented with four characters who haven't a clue about any of this. Welcome to the 21st century US surveillance state.
Which would seem to sum up multiple genres along the way, including the supernatural in some sense now joined at the hip to the mob genre - and the spy genre no longer necessarily in need of foot soldiers, with an invisible network mostly negating the need for instead stylishly castrated action heroes. And did I mention the wildly prophetic by default, astonishing addition to these plot twists of pager spyware, way before that digital genocidal scheme in this breaking news present moment in time.
Wolfs - a subliminal marriage of imperialist endless proxy wars with classic organized crime on screen, who knew...
Prairie Miller
Read The Review At Rotten Tomatoes HERE