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LOCKED

March 23, 2025 By Leave a Comment

LOCKED

LOCKED, the American re-make of Argentina’s 4X4, is an interesting premise beautifully acted, skillfully directed, but ultimately stymied by a script that mires itself in a repetitive second act that doesn’t so much expand as aggravate. The premise, a sad sack of a petty criminal gets trapped inside a luxury SUV tricked out as a… Read More »

Tagged With: class system, disgruntled rich guy, father-daughter, locked car, luxury SUV, petty thief, quilted leather upholstery. taunting, social justice, van repair

NOSFERATU

December 24, 2024 By Leave a Comment

NOSFERATU

David Eggers, who has a vision of such specific originality and clarity that it might well become a horror subgenre at some point, has taken on not just one iconic film in NOSFERATU, but two, both of whose imagery have become part of the cultural landscape even for those who have never seen NOSFERATU (1922)… Read More »

Tagged With: class system, Dracula, Germany, necrophilia, objectification of women, pagan ritual, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, undead, vampire

THE CROW

August 23, 2024 By Leave a Comment

THE CROW

The word that best describes THE CROW is moribund. Even during the ecstatic orgy of bloodletting that caps this reboot of Alex Proyas’ 1994 film, it is somnambulant as it goes through its paces charting the lengths to which true love can push a young man when faced with the devil. Or his charming associate… Read More »

Tagged With: cheery shades of pink, crow mythology, doomed romance, orgy of bloodletting, reboot, revenge

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

March 20, 2023 By Leave a Comment

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

What is most striking about JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4, and JW:C4 is a very striking film, is how emotionally engaging it is as is goes about the business of filling the screen to bursting with gloriously choreographed, ultra-violent action sequences. What in other films of this ilk would provide a paper-thin motivation for its protagonists… Read More »

Tagged With: assasin, Berlin, cheating at cards, excommunicado, fancifully knotted ties, New York, Osaka, Paris, Place de l'Étoile, sequel

NINE DAYS

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

NINE DAYS

With NINE DAYS, we are offered a metaphysical cosmology that reconciles why there is evil in the world with a need to believe that someone or something, somewhere, is watching over us and cares about what he or she or it sees. It is a devilishly complicated question, but filmmaker Edson Oda tackles it with… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, meaning of life, metaphysics, small moments

IT

September 9, 2017 By Leave a Comment

IT

The evil that lurks in the sewers beneath Derry, Maine, has nothing on the evil lurking in the homes of that community.

Tagged With: book to screen, bullying, child abduction, child abuse, evil clown, horror, remake

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