
Richard Kelly took the world by storm with his debut feature Donnie Darko. There was a lot of expectation on his follow-up Southland Tales, a film that seemed to promise even more originality and mind-bending antics. Unfortunately, what everyone got was probably the biggest sophomore slump in film history with a drawn out, pretentious and non-sensical movie. What did we make of it? Come and find out in our discussion involving: taking a long time to try to figure out the story, an unexpected Justin Timberlake music video, ice-cream-truck weapons dealers, underwater perpetual motion machines and actually being thankful for the juvenile humour.