In director Noah Baumbach’s 2014 film While We’re Young, Ben Stiller’s ageing Generation-X’er is fawning over the supposedly “democratic” pop-culture tastes of his new-found millennial friends. With a video collection where The Goonies rubs shoulders with Citizen Kane, a representation of the meeting of low art and high art if there ever was one, Stiller’s …
So I know it’s Alien Invasion Month and that the key requirements of Sound on Sight’s ongoing theme are quite simple: a) aliens and b) invading. I also know that apart from the U.S. military’s invasion of small town Ohio, there’s not a whole lot of that second part in J.J. Abrams’ Super 8, least of all from its star extraterrestrial, a recently escaped interplanetary alien-spider-gorilla who’s been exacting revenge on the government that studied him by abducting townsfolk and household appliances to rebuild his ship constructed from white, morphing Rubiks cubes. It’s all very technical, if you must know.