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PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

December 29, 2020 By Leave a Comment

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

It’s only right that a revenge story with a savage punch line should also have a savage sense of humor. And so it is with PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, a tale of rage against the patriarchy in which the testosterone-heavy are not the only problem, and one woman’s refusal to let a crime go unacknowledged makes… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, punch link, revenge, sexual assault

I AM LISA

October 30, 2020 By 1 Comment

I AM LISA

One can approach I AM LISA as a very cool horror film in which the power structure is challenged by the supernatural. One can also approach it as a scathingly brilliant dialectic on feminism in several of its waves. Either way one comes away from this deliciously atmospheric, intellectually nimble excursion into lycanthropy, wildly entertained… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, mean girls, revenge, sheriff, used books, werewolf, wolf

BLOODSHOT

March 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BLOODSHOT

Where to begin with BLOODSHOT, a derivative lump of lethargy that taints the thrill of the plot twist, and renders an action sequence in plummeting elevators dully predictable? Right down to the quips. Powered solely by Vin Diesel’s star power, it is overwritten and under cogitated, with special effects that aren’t. Diesel is still a… Read More »

Tagged With: clavical, hoochie, nanotechnology, resurrection, revenge

THE ASSIGNMENT

April 5, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE ASSIGNMENT

The subject matter in Walter Hill’s THE ASSIGNMENT will make half the audience cringe in a way that the other half, no matter how empathetic, won’t be able to fully understand. And that’s sly. This brutal exercise in gender studies, masquerading as a biting action-noir fable, is rife with irony and with bald truths designed… Read More »

Tagged With: gender, gender reassignment, hitman, mental institution, noir, pain assissin, revenge, sanity, surgery

THE SALESMAN — Asghar Farhadi

January 28, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE SALESMAN — Asghar Farhadi

When I spoke with Asghar Farhadi during the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 14, 2016 about THE SALESMAN, one of us (me) fully anticipated that it, like his Oscar™-winning film A SEPARATION, would be nominated for an Oscar™.  Neither of us could have anticipated that when it was, in fact, nominated, Farhadi would not… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award, Arthur Miller, Asghar Farhadi, assault, Biff, crumbling building, Death of A Salesman, feminisim, Iran, obsession, Oscar, Parisa Bakhtavar, revenge, Taraneh Alidoosti, Tehran, theater, Willy Loman

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (Kraftidioten)

September 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE (Kraftidioten)

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE is a bracingly original foray into very black humor. Set in the arctic-lite of rural Norway, it is a tale of relentless pursuit, clueless hubris, and the eccentricities that long winters provoke in the population. Writer Kim Fupz Aakeson and director Hans Petter Moland serve up this arch film about fathers and sons… Read More »

Tagged With: crime, drug dealer, drugs, father-son, murder, Norway, organized crime, overdose, revenge, snow plow

LILA & EVE Rewrites Revenge

July 17, 2015 By 1 Comment

LILA & EVE Rewrites Revenge

As a portrait of perfect grief, LILA & EVE is unmatched. Blessed with a performance by Viola Davis as Lila, this is one of the best ever filmed. She is fierce, edgy, and heartbreaking as a single mother in a harrowing study of the limits of sanity in the face of unutterable tragedy. Unlike the… Read More »

Tagged With: drama, drive-by shooting, grief, Jennifer Lopez, murdered child, narrative, revenge, vengeance, Viola Davis

JOHN WICK

November 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment

JOHN WICK

JOHN WICK is a sleek and unrepentant film about revenge and redemption.  Set in a parallel world to ours, one populated by criminals who live by a strict set of rules, conventions, and etiquette, it is a dark fantasy of violence in which the hero isn’t the pacifist, it’s the guy who really loves his… Read More »

Tagged With: action, assassins, drama, revenge

THE EQUALIZER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE  EQUALIZER

THE EQUALIZER is non-ironic escapist fare superbly acted and directed. It doesn’t indulge in psychological underpinnings or great philosophical conundrums beyond the need to keep the story going. It is a powerhouse of a vehicle for star and co-producer Denzel Washington that plays to his strengths and to the audience’’ weakness for wanting someone to… Read More »

Tagged With: action, Martin Csokas, revenge, Russian mob, suspense, vigilante

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