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ANTEBELLUM

December 16, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ANTEBELLUM

Of the many neat twists in ANTEBELLUM, the most disturbing of all is the one that concerns the state of race relations in the modern day, and how slavery still informs it. By contrasting the subtle, and not so subtle, micro-aggressions forced upon people of color in the present with the brutality of slavery as… Read More »

Tagged With: microaggression, patriarchy, racism, slavery, torture

I AM LISA

October 30, 2020 By 1 Comment

I AM LISA

One can approach I AM LISA as a very cool horror film in which the power structure is challenged by the supernatural. One can also approach it as a scathingly brilliant dialectic on feminism in several of its waves. Either way one comes away from this deliciously atmospheric, intellectually nimble excursion into lycanthropy, wildly entertained… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, mean girls, revenge, sheriff, used books, werewolf, wolf

SPUTNIK

August 16, 2020 By Leave a Comment

SPUTNIK

As is traditional in one of the more intriguing sub-genres of speculative fiction, the most dangerous monsters of SPUTNIK turn out to be the ones that didn’t come from outer space. That is the only standard trope to be found in this lean and lyric film from Russia, though, as it takes a sober look… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, cosmonaut, extra terrestrial, human nature, Khazakhstan, Russia, Soviet Union

DEERSKIN (Le Daim)

May 3, 2020 By Leave a Comment

DEERSKIN (Le Daim)

When we first meet Georges (Jean Dujardin), he has already begun his journey of transformation driving through the remoter edges of alpine France. We can sense from the way he fidgets that all is not right with the hero of DEERSKIN. And when he stops at a roadside gas station to flush his jacket down… Read More »

Tagged With: editing, France, fringe, hearing voices, homemade machete, narcissism

THE GRUDGE

January 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE GRUDGE

As a culture, we are not unfamiliar with the concept of the cinematic reboot. Consider how many iterations of Batmans, Spider-men, and the Star Trek universe have arrived at our neighborhood theaters in the last decade. Not to mention the less than stellar attempt to revive the Fantastic Four, though, to be fair, the original… Read More »

Tagged With: curse, ghost, Japan, Pennsylvanua, reboot, sequel

DR. SLEEP

November 10, 2019 By Leave a Comment

DR. SLEEP

Click here for the flashback interview with Ewan McGregor for SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN. DR. SLEEP, the sequel to THE SHINING, faced several issues in being brought to the screen, and has done so with a neat aplomb. The original film veered wildly from its source material as Stanley Kubrick adapted it to fit… Read More »

Tagged With: child predators, New Hampshire, sequel, shining, Stephen King

THE LIGHTHOUSE

October 26, 2019 By 1 Comment

THE LIGHTHOUSE

A dark and twisted fever dream of a film, THE LIGHTHOUSE confronts the anguish of the human condition with suitable horror and an equally suitable dash of absurdity. Rendered in disturbing grades of black and white, it presents two men tending a lighthouse on a desolate rocky outcropping in the middle of nowhere. In the… Read More »

Tagged With: black and white, homoeroticism, horror, lighthouse, madness, mermaid, scrimshaw

READY OR NOT

August 22, 2019 By Leave a Comment

READY OR NOT

READY OR NOT has one of the great cinematic punchlines. It’s much better in context, so I won’t give it away, but suffice to say that it’s not only pithy, it’s also all too relatable. So is the film itself, in a deliciously twisted way. This very black comedy plays on the fine line between… Read More »

Tagged With: class system, in-laws, pact with Satan, wealth, wedding

MIDSOMMAR

July 4, 2019 By Leave a Comment

MIDSOMMAR

At the end of MIDSOMMAR, our much put-upon heroine, Dani (Florence Pugh) smiles.  It’s her first real smile of the film, and how she got there is a tale of bucolic splendor, ecological harmony, and psychic terror. Brought to us by Ari Aster, the iconoclastic mind behind HEREDITY, it finds in parable and metaphor the… Read More »

Tagged With: folk festivals, magic mushrooms, mental illness, midsummer, Sweden

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

June 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE DEAD DON’T DIE

THE DEAD DON’T DIE takes the tropes, idioms, and beloved foibles of low-budget zombie flicks and, with a skillful flick of its auteur’s cinematic wrist, recontextualizes them into a stylized gloss on the new normal of 2019.  Certainly the “Make America White Again” ball cap sported by the most reviled citizen (Steve Buscemi) of sleepy… Read More »

Tagged With: homage, horror, police, small town, spoof, undead, zombies

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