Vikram Murthi

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  • Dec 5, 2025
    The opening credits of Marty Supreme features retro animation of a sperm fertilizing a giant egg; as Alphaville’s “Forever Young” blares over the...
  • Oct 24, 2025
    James Mooney (Josh O’Conner), or J.B. for short, is a dime-a-dozen suburban malcontent who believes he deserves more than a middle-class life. His two kids and beautiful...
  • Jun 26, 2025
    In Robert Altman’s The Player (1992), a studio exec named Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) kills a screenwriter in cold blood. He mistakenly believes his victim was a stalker who had...
  • Jan 23, 2025
    In David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, college student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) discovers that he’s both a detective and a pervert. The lengthy, disturbing...