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TALK TO ME

August 7, 2023 By Leave a Comment

TALK TO ME

TALK TO ME is a supremely terrifying film mixing the horrors of the restless undead with the greater horror of emotionally absent parents.  The directing debut of brothers Danny and Michael Philippou is a story of quiet despair that grows geometrically as it progresses for its teenage protagonists who learn too late that the spirit… Read More »

Tagged With: despair, emotionally absent parents, grief, haunting, plaster hand, possession, social media

HAUNTED MANSION

July 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

HAUNTED MANSION

This is the not the first time that Disney has tried to cinema-ize its Haunted Mansion attraction. That perennial favorite got the film treatment 20 years ago with Eddie Murphy heading an indifferent story and a sentimental subplot that I found to be more interesting than anything involving Mr. Murphy.  Alas, this latest attempt fares… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a Disney attraction, ghosts, grief, haunting, New Orleans, pocket protector, remake, sou'wester

THE RIGHTEOUS — Mark O’Brien Interview

May 3, 2022 By Leave a Comment

Click here to listen to the interview. Mark O’Brien is best known as a Canadian Screen Award-winning actor (GOALIE, CITY ON A HILL, HALT AND CATCH FIRE, MARRIAGE STORY, and BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE to name a few of his credits), but for THE RIGHTEOUS he wrote the script as well as directing… Read More »

Tagged With: absolution, black & white, Catholicism, cinematography, confession, faith, grief, guilt, Justin Chon, New Foundland

THE NIGHT HOUSE

August 22, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE NIGHT HOUSE

In THE NIGHT HOUSE, star/producer Rebecca Hall dares to give us a female protagonist who does not ask us to like her. In fact, she all but dares us not to. Yet, in a brilliant performance that combines pain and vitriol, she makes us empathize with a new widow who may or may not be… Read More »

Tagged With: grief, lake house, secret life, shadow figure, suicide, suspicion, widow

WANDER DARKLY

December 8, 2020 By Leave a Comment

WANDER DARKLY

WANDER DARKLY is the antidote to the generic rom-com. Set in the subjective viewpoint of a woman who is convinced that she is dead, it explores a relationship gone wrong using the unencumbered honesty of retrospection. The woman is Adrienne (Sienna Miller), who is always quick to point out that the father of her infant,… Read More »

Tagged With: afterlife, car crash, grief, illusion, reality, Trauma

MADE IN ITALY

August 9, 2020 By Leave a Comment

MADE IN ITALY

A story well told is always worth our attention, and thus it is with MADE IN ITALY, a heart-warming tale of coming to terms with the past in order to face a future without the burden of unresolved grief and lingering complacency. Set for the most part in the spectacular Tuscan countryside, its pacing and… Read More »

Tagged With: broken heart, divorce, estrangement, father-son relationship, grief, guilt, Italy, remodeling, Tuscany

FRANK VS. GOD — Henry Ian Cusick Interview

July 12, 2017 By Leave a Comment

FRANK VS. GOD — Henry Ian Cusick Interview

I may not have had the best phone connection when talking with Henry Ian Cusick on June 7, 2017, but his passion for intriguing roles and material that allows him to stretch as an actor came through clear as a bell. The occasion of our conversation was the online release of FRANK VS. GOD, a… Read More »

Tagged With: act of God, DRESS, faith, FRANK VS. GOD, grief, Henry Ian Cusick, humor, Inhumans, Jesus, lawsuit, Marvel Comics, MCU, Pali Road, religion, short film, Sonya Walger, Stewart Schill, THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, tornado, VISIBLE

PREVENGE

May 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

PREVENGE

Written and directed with a suitably biting edge by star Alice Lowe, PREVENGE is a droll and razor sharp black comedy of a horror film that considers the terrors of pregnancy and the maternal instinct gone askew. Very askew.  Lowe, with a perfect deadpan sense of purpose, wields her kitchen knife as an instrument of… Read More »

Tagged With: fetus, grief, innocent bystander, midwife, pregnancy, serial killer

THE SHACK

March 3, 2017 By 5 Comments

THE SHACK

THE SHACK, based on the best-selling novel of the same name, is a well-meaning and heartfelt film that dares to tackle a fiendishly tricky question. If God is good and loves us all, why does She allow evil in the world? Couched in parables and riddles, and for all its gentleness of spirit, it arrives… Read More »

Tagged With: faith, God, grief, Holy Spirit, Holy Trinity, miracles, religion, walking on water

THE LAST WORD — Mark Pellington Interview

March 2, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE LAST WORD — Mark Pellington Interview

Mark Pellington is firmly in touch with his feminine side. It was one of the first thing he talked about when I interviewed him on February 27, 2017. We went on riff on the psychology of the characters in THE LAST WORD, muse on making an entertaining film with substance, and the legacy of the… Read More »

Tagged With: Amanda Seyfried, at-risk child, catharsis, dementia, Feminism, grief, Jenny Holzer, legacy, MTV, nostalgia, Obituary, power of words, Shirley MacLaine, United States of Poetry, William Burroughs

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