This will teach you to arouse royalty.

John Waters's modern fairy tale in which "Alice in Wonderland" falls through a hole and becomes an ally to the "Queen of Hearts". In proper trash fashion, her ultimate aesthetic becomes a hilarious crossover between Death in Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Queen Grimhilde in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, right at a time when she starts concocting a potion that would not induce an eternal sleep in its drinker, but…

If you want, you can look at my clothes.
They're the finest of polyester.

Polyester is regarded today as John Waters's career shift, as a film very much palatable to wider audiences, at first glance at least. It operates as a razor-sharp deconstruction-parody-homage to a mainstream suburban family melodrama, the most mainstream of his efforts up to that point, but no less dangerous because of it, while still retaining the beating heart of his legendary exaggerated underground trash extravaganza.
It…

This is the first film that made me realize I need to start writing movie reviews on this site.

I kept telling myself there was no need for that and that whatever I had to say about a certain movie, someone had already written before me. Of course, there is also the impostor syndrome that tells me I have no right to blabber like this openly to everyone because I haven't watched enough movies, that I don't know what I'm…

The outcome of perfection is total
destruction.

Evolutionarily, the most advanced sentient being exists first and foremost as a perfect killing machine. Self-preservation is the key to progress. The xenomorph is death incarnated.

Somewhere far away in space, an alien being provides the harshest message on humanity. What is at stake is not only the direction of our own evolution, but the very nature of advancement we strive for.
It was never about finding the missing link. It is always…