Dream Team
Kalman and Horn’s latest retro-futurist homage to 90s basic cable thrillers offers a hodgepodge of satirical angles for the hyper-specific subgenre of television. But this is precisely its strength in embracing transparent cheese and sleaze. Minh T Mia as Dr. Veronica Beef in Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn's DREAM TEAM. Photo by Whitney Horn. Courtesy of Yellow Veil Pictures. Writers and directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn have carved out a specific cavern of cinema out for themselves. It’s completely autonomous of the conventions filmic “aesthetics” populate within A24-like fuzzy film filters although it may look just like one. The difference is Dream Team’s attitude, which is something admirably peculiar and offers something wholeheartedly genuine that you wouldn’t get elsewhere. The treatment of what Dream Team employs is a complete and total participation within what’s being lampooned — late 1980s and early 1990s procedural softcore television. It feels like...