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NOTHING COMPARES

September 21, 2022 By 1 Comment

NOTHING COMPARES

It is high time for a re-appraisal of Sinéad O’Connor. Now best remembered with a tinge of distaste for tearing up a picture of the Pope on “Saturday Night Live” in 1992, the singer is the focus of Kathryn Ferguson’s documentary, NOTHING COMPARES. Centering on O’Connor’s precipitous rise to stardom at barely 21 to the… Read More »

Tagged With: Catholic Church, child abuse, controversy, Ireland, misogyny, music industry, patriarchy, Prince, Saturday Night Live

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

July 16, 2022 By 1 Comment

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

One senses that the novel of the same name on which WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING possessed some lovely prose. Certainly, when the narration includes lines from the book, there is the dark poetic ring of classic Southern Gothic reverberating from the musings on death intoned by the adult version of Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones). Whatever philosophical… Read More »

Tagged With: bullying, child abuse, classism, disappointing men, marsh, murder, mystery, North Carolina, swamp, trial

THE BLACK PHONE

June 24, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE BLACK PHONE

The horror in THE BLACK PHONE, and very effective horror it is, comes not primarily from the serial child killer on the loose in a suburban enclave of Denver in 1978. Played with a geeky, creepy panache by Ethan Hawke, The Grabber, as he is dubbed by the police and the populace of this all-American… Read More »

Tagged With: Baphomet, based on a short story, bullying, child abuse, child killer, existential crisis, second sight, serial killer

WHEN I CONSUME YOU — Perry Blackshear, Macleod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Libby Ewing Interview

August 18, 2021 By Leave a Comment

WHEN I CONSUME YOU — Perry Blackshear, Macleod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Libby Ewing Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. I spoke by Zoom to writer/director Perry Blackshear and actors/producers Macleod Andrews, Evan Dumouchel, and Libby Ewing ahead of the world premiere of their film, WHEN I CONSUME YOU, at the Fantasia International Film Festival. This intense psychological horror/mystery film deals with Daphne and Will (Ewing and Dumouchel),… Read More »

Tagged With: child abuse, exorcism, film editing, gentleness, pandemic, Personal demons, smirk, survivors of child abuse

QUEST — Santiago Rizzo Interview

November 8, 2017 By Leave a Comment

QUEST — Santiago Rizzo Interview

Santiago Rizzo’s semi-autobiographical film, QUEST received the Mill Valley Film Festival Audience Favorite – US Cinema Indie. Not bad for a directorial debut, and doubly gratifying because it is a tribute to the Berkeley teacher, Tim Moellener, who probably saved Rizzo’s life. He certainly set the future filmmaker on a better path than the one… Read More »

Tagged With: Banksy, child abuse, Covenant House, graffiti artist, low-light filming, societal hypocrisy, street art, Tagger, teacher, tracking shots, Trump, trusting the struggle

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

REGRESSION

February 7, 2016 By 1 Comment

REGRESSION

Alejandro Amenábar directed Nicole Kidman to one of her best performances in THE OTHERS, a horror film that was both haunting and clever. The full review of that fine film is here, and I recommend watching that instead of REGRESSION, a film that is equally atmospheric, but diffused in its mounting terror, rather than sharply… Read More »

Tagged With: child abuse, devil worship, minister, Minnesota, police, police detective, psychotheraphy, Satanic Ritual Abuse, small town

Cary Fukunaga and Abraham Attah Take On BEASTS OF NO NATION

October 16, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Cary Fukunaga and Abraham Attah Take On BEASTS OF NO NATION

I loved the rapport between writer/director Cary Fukunaga and his discovery, Abraham Attah. If there was ever a more impressive feature film debut than Attah’s in BEASTS OF NO NATION, I can’t remember it. This searing, heartbreaking adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s novel of the same name casts Attah as Agu, a normal, happy kid in… Read More »

Tagged With: Abraham Attah, book to screen, Cary Fukunaga, child abuse, child soldier, Civil War, Idris Elba, practical special effects, tracking shot, Uzodinma Iweala, West Africa

CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS

Beyond the riveting look at a family falling apart under the weight of its own emotional baggage, CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS explores the elusive nature of truth. By the end, far from establishing what is and isn’’t true, we are left with the unsettling realization that what is real at any given moment for one person… Read More »

Tagged With: child abuse, legal system, pedophilia

Andrew Jarecki on CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Andrew Jarecki on CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS

For a debut film, Andrew Jarecki couldn’t have picked a more controversial or attention-grabbing subject that child sexual abuse. Yet his film dealing with the emotional impact on the family of the accused father and son transcends sensationalism and becomes a consideration on the nature of truth and universality of family life. When I spoke to… Read More »

Tagged With: Arnold Friedman, child abuse, David Friedman, debut film, director, documentary, family life, film distribution, Jesse Friedman, pedophilia, true crime, truth

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