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THE INFERNAL MACHINE

September 23, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE INFERNAL MACHINE

THE INFERNAL MACHINE begins as a spare and tense film driven by Guy Pearce’s measured performance as tormented author Bruce Cogburn. Alas, not even Pearce’s fine work as Cogburn slowly unravels from years of guilt can make up for a script whose third act becomes cryptically obtuse, rather than dynamically charged, before it just goes… Read More »

Tagged With: American Southwest, guilt, isolation, mass shooting, paranoia, writer

CAVEAT

June 3, 2021 By Leave a Comment

CAVEAT

Click here for the interview with writer/director/editor Damian McCarthy. CAVEAT is a small masterpiece of mood and atmosphere. A southern gothic transplanted to a remote island somewhere off the coast of Ireland without losing anything in the cultural translation, it is all about suggestion and quick cuts showing what may or may not be externalization… Read More »

Tagged With: amnesia, crossbow, decaying house, mechanical rabbit, paranoia, remote island

PAPER SPIDERS

May 11, 2021 By 1 Comment

PAPER SPIDERS

Husband and wife writing team Inon Shampanier and Natalie Shampanier wrote PAPER SPIDERS from personal experience, which gives it that extra gloss of authenticity. While it does not reflect the factual truth of the struggles they had with Natalie’s mother and her diagnosis of persecutory delusional disorder, it does convey the emotional truth of seeing… Read More »

Tagged With: high school, mental illness, mother-daughter, paranoia, persecutory delusional disorder

THE NIGHT

January 27, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE NIGHT

With THE NIGHT, Kourosh Ahari has fashioned a deeply disturbing, elegantly told tale of horror that resonates not so much for its supernatural elements, as for the fear that lurks within us all that one day, or in this case, night, we will get what we deserve for our transgressions. Ahari may be using familiar… Read More »

Tagged With: bickering couple, creepy desk clerk, hotel, paranoia

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS — Tim Wardle Interview

July 5, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS — Tim Wardle Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Click here for the KMR review of THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS. Almost the first thing I said to Tim Wardle when we spoke on April 8, 2018, was that my greatest hope for the interview was that we wouldn’t give too much away.  I hope we succeeded. His documentary, THREE IDENTICAL… Read More »

Tagged With: adoption, Billy Joel, Bobby Shafran, David Kellman, documentary, Eddie Galland, existential crisis, Lawrence Wright, nature v. nurture, paranoia, Paul Sanderson, RAW, separated at birth, stranger than fiction, triplets

TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR

May 2, 2017 By 2 Comments

TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR

You could, if so inclined, sit back and enjoy Richard Mundy’s counterintuitively dynamic film, TWENTY TWENTY- FOUR, merely as an engrossing study of a loner going slowly mad in isolation. As the difference between reality and madness builds to a fever pitch, the mystery of what exactly is happening in Roy’s underground bunker matches the… Read More »

Tagged With: bunker, computer interface, dystopia, isolation, nuclear war, paranoia, reality

LONDON ROAD

September 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LONDON ROAD

LONDON ROAD brilliantly uses the unreality of ordinary people breaking into song to evoke the unreality of a serial killer on the loose on the otherwise unremarkable eponymous street in the otherwise unremarkable small town of Ipswich, England.  Based on the Royal National Theatre production, original cast intact, that was, in turn, based on the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, fear, from stage to screen, Ipswich, musical, paranoia, Royal National Theatre, serial killer, xenophobia

Jenna Ricker on THE AMERICAN SIDE

June 4, 2016 By 2 Comments

Jenna Ricker on THE AMERICAN SIDE

Star and co-writer Greg Stuhr sat in on my interview with co-writer and director Jenna Ricker.  You can almost hear him off mic adding a word or two, but he chose to remain a suitably enigmatic, though thoroughly affable, presence rather than a participant as Ricker and I discussed their intriguing film noir, THE AMERICAN SIDE.… Read More »

Tagged With: Bohemian Grove, Buffalo, conspiracy theory, Edison, electric car, film noir, genre films, Greg Stuhr, Jenna Ricker, McGuffin, paranoia, Pierce Arrow, Tesla

THE ONES BELOW — David Farr Interview

May 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE ONES BELOW — David Farr Interview

I didn’t have the best phone connection when I spoke with David Farr on May 6, 2016, but that didn’t diminish the perceptive, and even provocative things that the filmmaker had to say about his bone-chilling film, THE ONES BELOW. This tale of enforced intimacy and primal bonding between couples who are both expecting babies… Read More »

Tagged With: anxiety, couples, London, neighbors, paranoia, parenthood, pregnancy

PAWN SACRIFICE

September 18, 2015 By 1 Comment

PAWN SACRIFICE

Chess has never been more compelling cinematically than in PAWN SACRIFICE. Whether you know nothing about the game, or you are a grand master, the story of Bobby Fischer’s rise to the world championship, and the toll it took on his already fragile psyche, has all the suspense and intrigue of an espionage thriller. That… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Bobby Fischer, Boris Spassky, chess, cold war, government surveillance, Liev Schreiber, narrative, paranoia, PAWN SACRIFICE, politics, Steven Knight, Tobey Maguire

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