Vox Lux – A Star Is Forlorn

Vox Lux is like a pot luck. There are many different parts all laid out together on a table. You can sample all of them, some are better than the others, but you can’t focus on just the good ones too much, because you need to get a little of everything. Then you see that Frank from accounting took all the good food and all you are left with in the end are the brussel sprouts. Now, moving on from an analogy I made solely because “Vox Lux” sounds sort of, maybe, a little bit like “pot luck”…

Vox Lux is broken into multiple parts. For simplicity’s sake, there are two chunks. The first half of the movie is young Celeste and the second half is older Celeste. The young Celeste section focuses on the start of her career as a pop act. The second concerns a seasoned pop star Celeste doing big concert in her hometown.
These chunks are split further into acts, but the change between those isn’t as drastic. If you are a step ahead of me then you already realized what I’m about to tell you: Natalie Portman isn’t in half of this movie. She enters at the 50 minute mark. But more about that later.

Horrorween: Day 1 – Hell Fest

Back again with this year’s installment of Horrorween, when I try to watch at least 1 horror movie each day for the month of October. I will be reviewing one film a day as I watch them. I promise this time, I will do it. Last year, Blood Diner just sorta broke me. (Also I got lazy.)
Kicking things off for 2018, I went to see a new theatrical release: Hell Fest.

We begin with Natalie (Amy Forsyth) making a trip home from college to see her best friend Brooke (Reign Edwards) during the Halloween season.  Brooke tells her that her and some friends got tickets to Hell Fest, a horror themed seasonal theme park.
Natalie is a little bummed out to see Taylor (Bex Taylor-Klaus) a girl she never got along with well is going as well, but convinced to go when she hears a guy she has a crush on will be there too. Also, a guy sneaks into Hell Fest and kills people. That’s the entire plot. Our little group of friends get picked off for the next 90 minutes.

Best F(r)iends Vol 1. – Oh, hi Tommy. I didn’t know it was you.

After 15 years, Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero are back on the screen. After the massive world wide success of The Room making them household names, they have taken time to hang out with fans, present midnight screenings, and relax. But they’re back, baby. They’re back!

Best F(r)iends is penned by Sestero himself, and directed by Justin MacGregor (The Generations). Tommy stays firmly in front of the camera this time, allowing himself to focus solely on this performance. This is a very good thing, because Tommy is an all-American, big time movie actor.