The comically but altogether disgustingly unrealistic amounts of blood dripping from characters both male and female, soaked into the walls of a remote mountainous getaway vacation home and the vast desert landscapes that occupy the surroundings, are absolutely sure to be a major talking point for Revenge (the feature-length debut from French writer and director Coralie Fargeat), but this is rape vengeance with […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Capsule Review – American Animals
The turning point where American Animals finally won me over and will for anyone else not entirely sold, boils down to a third act reveal that makes clear why writer and director Bart Layton has chosen to include documentary-style cutaway interviews to the real-life subjects of the Transylvania University art heist incident (now middle-aged, and if my […]
Movie Review – Happy End (2017)
Happy End, 2017. Written and Directed by Michael Haneke. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Fantine Harduin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Laura Verlinden, Franz Rogowski, Aurélia Petit, and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: A drama about a family set in Calais with the European refugee crisis as the backdrop. There is a lot going on in Happy End, the latest […]
Movie Review – Loveless (2017)
Loveless, 2017. Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. Starring Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Varvara Shmykova, Matvey Novikov, Daria Pisareva, and Yanina Hope. SYNOPSIS: A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments. Loveless is detached and bleak, a window into the lives of a couple […]
Movie Review – Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2018)
Gehenna: Where Death Lives , 2018. Directed by Hiroshi Katagiri. Starring Doug Jones, Lance Henriksen, Patrick Gorman, Simon Phillips, Sean Sprawling, and Eva Swan. SYNOPSIS: A scouting party are exploring the picturesque island of Saipan, with the intention of tracking down the ideal place for a new resort. These efforts are exacerbated somewhat by the […]
Krypton Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘House of Zod’
Ricky Church reviews the fifth episode of Krypton… Building off recent events in Krypton with Lyta’s imprisonment and Seg’s escape from Black Zero, ‘House of Zod’ was a well developed continuation of ‘The Word of Rao‘. It also served as a good examination of the title House and what would make them eventually become enemies to the […]
Riverdale Season 2 Episode 18 Review – ‘A Night to Remember’
Liam Hoofe reviews the eighteenth episode of Riverdale season 2… Since it was first announced a few months ago, fans have been understandably both excited and intrigued by the prospect of a Carrie the musical inspired episode of Riverdale. Needless to say, of course, the show delivered and then some, providing us with one of […]
Movie Review – A Fantastic Woman (2017)
A Fantastic Woman, 2017. Directed by Sebastian Lelio. Starring Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Saavedra, Amparo Noguera, Trinidad González, Nestor Cantillana, and Antonia Zegers. SYNOPSIS: Marina, a waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. A Fantastic Woman follows the mournful and […]
Lucifer Season 3 Episode 20 Review – ‘The Angel of San Bernardino’
Tori Brazier reviews the twentieth episode of Lucifer season 3… ‘The Angel of San Bernardino’ presents an abnormal state of affairs for Lucifer in that we see the usually unruffled titular devil (Tom Ellis) incredibly flustered and out of control as he deals with the possibility of another interference from his Father, after a woman […]
DVD Review – The Hero (2017)
The Hero, 2017. Directed by Brett Haley. Starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Nick Offerman, Krysten Ritter, and Katherine Ross. SYNOPSIS: With his glory days far behind him, a fading movie star is forced to confront his past and his own mortality. It’s one of the most distinctive voices in the movies. Sam Elliott’s gravelly tones […]
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