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CHAOS WALKING

March 7, 2021 By Leave a Comment

CHAOS WALKING

CHAOS WALKING is a somber affair told in muddy earth tones and moribund action. Based on the book The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, it presents New World in the year 2257, a distant planet colonized by religious humans who have brought with them much of what they should have left back… Read More »

Tagged With: a boy and his dog, book to screen, first love, mind-reading, religion fanaticism, space colonization

June 19, 2020 By Leave a Comment

Click here to listen to the interview. The first thing you notice about Ben Mendelsohn when you meet him in person is how very blue his eyes are.  The second thing is his impish sense of humor coupled with a penchant for being the perfect host (he insisted on ordering coffee for the both of… Read More »

https://www.killermoviereviews.com/interview/18554/

Tagged With: Australia, father-daughter, female director, first love, Orson Krennic, Rogue One, Star Wars, terminal illness

MEAN DREAMS

March 28, 2017 By Leave a Comment

MEAN DREAMS

MEAN DREAMS begins with a snake and ends with an apple. In between it is less bible story than a stark noir set in the bucolic autumnal countryside where Jonas (Josh Wiggins) and Casey (Sophie Nélisse), two emotionally damaged teenagers, meet and become each other’s unlikely salvation. Each is the child of fathers that are,… Read More »

Tagged With: abusive father, escape, first love, on the run

HACKSAW RIDGE

November 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

HACKSAW RIDGE

Mel Gibson’s HACKSAW RIDGE begins with a quiet shot looking down (from heaven?) on corpses. They are horrific, with bits missing and gore everywhere.  It’s a moment that will quickly give way to the battle of Okinawa that made them. Bodies ripped by bullets falling to the ground, others engulfed in flames running in panic.… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, basic training, Blue Ridge Mountains, conscientious objector, drill sergeant, first love, Hacksaw Ridge, Okinawa, Pacific Theater, tourniquet, World War II

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