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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

TOWER

November 6, 2016 By Leave a Comment

TOWER

On August 1, 1966, a sniper took aim from the observation deck of the tower on the University of Texas campus at Austin and reigned 90 minutes of chaos and terror on the people below.  TOWER, a partly animated documentary by Keith Maitland, tells that story in real time from the perspective of the eyewitnesses… Read More »

Tagged With: 1966, Austin sniper, based on a true story, mass murder, police, pregnancy, sharpshooter, sniper, University of Austin

TRAIN TO BUSAN (Busanhaeng)

September 25, 2016 By Leave a Comment

TRAIN TO BUSAN (Busanhaeng)

New zombies, new rules. If TRAIN TO BUSAN did nothing but find a new take on zombies, it would be worth your time, but this Korean gem goes the extra yardage to gift us with an engrossing story that contains only a soupçon of well-regulated sappy sentiment.  It’s far more interested in observing what happens… Read More »

Tagged With: divorce, father-daughter, horror, Korea, pregnancy, Seoul, thriller, train, zombie

Rebecca Miller Explains MAGGIE’S PLAN

June 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

Rebecca Miller Explains MAGGIE’S PLAN

I love how Rebecca Miller’s mind works. With the eponymous Maggie of her film, MAGGIE’S PLAN, she has brought to life a character who manipulates other for their own good, and still seems like the great-hearted soul. And she’s made it a wickedly smart comedy. Perhaps it was only Greta Gerwig who could have pulled… Read More »

Tagged With: affair, comedy, divorce, etsy culture, Gary Winick, hysteria, idiosyncratic accents, Karen Rinaldi, knitting as feminism, motherhood, pickle-maker, pregnancy, Rebecca Miller, stitch and bitch, topknot

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

NASTY BABY

October 30, 2015 By Leave a Comment

NASTY BABY

It’s a toss-up which is more unpredictable:  creative impulse when given full rein, or that same impulse when it is stymied, though, perhaps one is a little that is more dangerous than the other.  The struggle, be it artistic or procreative, is the theme of Sebastian Silva’s NASTY BABY, a modern fable about family, friendship,… Read More »

Tagged With: art, Family, homelessness, LGBT, mental illness, pregnancy

CHILDREN OF MEN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

CHILDREN OF MEN

In a here-and-now where the primacy of children is given ample lip service by proponents of any and all social issues, it is refreshing, and not a little thought-provoking, to see in Alfonso Cuaron’s CHILDREN OF MEN, based on the P.D. James novel of the same name, a world in which this is actually the case.… Read More »

Tagged With: Alfonso Cuaron, book to film, CHILDREN OF MEN, Clive Owen, dystopian future, immigration, infertility, Julianne Moore, Margaret Atwood, paranoia, pregnancy, Sci-fi, speculative fiction, terrorism

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