John Waters and Harmony Korine are two sides of the same coin, having devoted their lives to chronicling the White Trash world of America's most ignored and least embraced. Waters, of course, chose to do so with a lovingly comic approach that throws kitch and social commentary into a blender and then pukes it up … Continue reading Julien Donkey Boy
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Riget (The Kingdom) • Part 2
If the first part of Lars Von Trier's Riget fulfills your need for entertaining insanity, then the conclusion will really kick you in the gut. From a doctor who implants a cancerous liver into himself in the name of science, to a Danish-hating Swede who travels all the way to Haiti out of spite, the … Continue reading Riget (The Kingdom) • Part 2
Riget (The Kingdom) • Part 1
If you think Twin Peaks: The Return is the greatest 18 hours of television ever made, or something close to it, then today's your lucky day- Lars Von Trier's Riget (The Kingdom in English) is kind of sort of the same thing, but not. A Danish mini-series split into two 4-hour seasons, it only qualifies … Continue reading Riget (The Kingdom) • Part 1