The second, entirely unrelated, what is the difference between a great movie and a terrible movie, and by extension this — are «bad movies we love» ever truly terrible or are they actually funhouse mirrors of greatness, very nearly the same but for the random comic distortions? (thefilmexperience.net)
Dale Lewis's «Fat, Sugar, Salt» — his second solo show at Edel Assanti — depicts life in Brexit Britain as a distorted funhouse mirror: each new angle more grotesque and cruelly familiar than the last. (frieze.com)
The narrative attempts to tell a bizarre funhouse mirror version of a rags to riches story of a crazy director with no talent who becomes a celebrity in spite of himself by making a terrible movie badly, but Franco and his cadre of famous friends (his brother Dave, Alison Brie, Zac Efrton, Seth Rogen, and so on and so on) seem far too tickled making shot for shot remakes of scenes from The Room to latch onto anything beyond an extended SNL skit. (alphaprimitive.com)