Film Review Podcast: “Under the Silver Lake”

That I am able to review “Under the Silver Lake” is a testament to the new dynamic in the world of cinema.

The trailers for this film showed a year ago or so at the eight screen cineplex in my town that used to show indie films and small films and what used to be known as “art films.” Operative phrase: “used to show.” Now it’s all Avengers all the time, along with other lowest common denominator popcorn flicks. And the film itself never showed.

Sigh. Such is the nature of the biz.

So, if it weren’t for Netflix and Jeff Bezos Prime and their ilk, we’d never have an opportunity to see such as “Under the Silver Lake” and other oddities of interest, but not enough interest to make it to the Heartland on a big screen.

It’s the yin and yang of life.

So, I’m grateful, if somewhat exasperated.

As for the film, more details about which you can learn from listening to the podcast below, well, it intrigues, if not providing total satiation.

Andrew Garfield is an underachiever in LA, who meets Riley Keough one evening, when she’s swimming in his apartment complex pool. They flirt, cuddle and make plans to hook up the next day. But she’s gone, and her apartment is empty.

Garfield commences an odyssey to find her, and discover the meaning of other mysteries abounding in his neighborhood. Along the way, he is bombarded with decades of pop culture references.

For more insight, listen up: