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A NIGHTMARE WAKES

February 4, 2021 By Leave a Comment

A NIGHTMARE WAKES

The most potent image in A NIGHTMARE WAKES, a film that is rife with them, is the juxtaposition of blood and ink as Mary Shelley (Alix Wilton Regan) struggles to produce her novel, Frankenstein or A New Prometheus, putatively the beginning of the science fiction genre (pace fans of Cyrano de Bergerac’s A Trip to… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Feminism, Frankenstein, illusion, Mary Shelly, sanity, symbolism, writing

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

MOON

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MOON

Duncan Jones’’ debut feature, MOON, is a sharp and intelligent consideration of reality itself. An engrossing tale set in the near future on the dark side of our planet’’s satellite, it probes the equally dark side of the human condition and in the process does what the best science fiction ought to do, which is… Read More »

Tagged With: energy mining, isolation, moon base, sanity, space exploration

Tony Gilroy Pulls the Strings on MICHAEL CLAYTON

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Tony Gilroy Pulls the Strings on MICHAEL CLAYTON

Tony Gilroy is no stranger to the inner workings of law firms. He researched how things operated while writing the screenplay for THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE, but with MICHAEL CLAYTON, which marks his directorial debut, he kept things strictly out of the supernatural realm while still exploring the evil at work in the world. When we… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, corporate ethics, director, directorial debut, drama, film, George Clooney, law firms, lawsuits, lies, loneliness, madness, madness as sanity, MICHAEL CLAYTON, movie, narrative, sanity, Tilda Swinton, Tony Gilroy, truth, writer

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