Archived News
| |
Laguna Ave. [read more]
|
| |
What a short, strange trip |
| |
On February 1 2022, the essential, alternative streaming service ARROW premieres LAGUNA AVE., a brilliant and bizarre sci-fi comedy from director David Buchanan, written by Paul Papadeas.
A truly offbeat slice of surrealistic mayhem, LAGUNA AVE. is a fiercely energetic and often hilarious 80 minute trip, filmed in black and white, that Film Threat says "comes on like a 90s-era slacker comedy and goes out on a note of apocalyptic dread".
The film features a terrific lead performance from Russell Steinberg (Days Out of Days, Adventureland) as a beleaguered former musician trying to eke out a living on the unforgiving fringes of Hollywood, who stumbles upon something very strange indeed when the enigmatic Gary (James Markham Hall Jr, Snake Out of Compton) moves into his apartment building.
Delirious, demented, and occasionally whacked-out druggy, packed with weird and wild characters, a pulsing, pounding soundtrack, and a plot that defies description, this "gonzo schlockfest" (Kim Newman) is US indie cinema at its most entertaining and original. A nutty blend of Kevin Smith's Clerks, Darren Aronofsky's Pi, Swingers and Tetsuo: The Iron Man, LAGUNA AVE. is an address you really need to visit as soon as possible. |
 |
| |
Graeme Clark
[20 Jan 2022 at 12:32] |
|
| |
|
|
|
