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THE LITTLE THINGS

January 31, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE LITTLE THINGS

THE LITTLE THINGS, or to be precise, “the little things” is a well-thought-out film, and if putting a film together with the pre-fab precision of a Lego® sculpture were all it took to make a great flick, such it would be. Alas, the overweening self-conscious sense of profundity fails to convince even the most willing… Read More »

Tagged With: guilty secrets, LAPD, murders, police detectives, serial killer

I BLAME SOCIETY

January 11, 2021 By Leave a Comment

I BLAME SOCIETY

I’m not giving anything away to tell you the punch line in Gillian Wallace Horvat’s I BLAME SOCIETY. It’s a perfectly timed, and even more perfectly delivered explanation about the film her character made in the course of this vicious, and viciously funny satire: I’m sorry it didn’t meet your expectations, I didn’t make it… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, blonde, likeable female lead, patriarchy, pointed social commentary, satire, serial killer, strong female lead

THE ALIENIST

January 22, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE ALIENIST

Meticulous in its detail, and lush in its recreation of 19th-century New York City, TNT’s 10-part adaptation of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist is on a par with Martin Scorsese’s similar cinematic visits to that period in THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and GANGS OF NEW YORK. While those films separated the mighty and the downtrodden, THE… Read More »

Tagged With: historical drama, profiling, proto criminal forensics, psychiatry, serial killer, Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

YOU’RE KILLING ME

March 8, 2016 By Leave a Comment

YOU’RE KILLING ME

YOU’RE KILLING ME is a wry and delightful black comedy of very bad manners, of which murder may not be the most heinous. In it, a group of hip twenty-somethings on the fringes of show biz negotiate awkward game nights, the finer points of dating etiquette, and the protocols of disposing of a dead body.… Read More »

Tagged With: dating, game night., LGBTQ, Los Angeles, murder, romance, serial killer, show biz

Nick Broomfield Tells TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER

April 27, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Nick Broomfield Tells TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER

Nick Broomfield makes documentaries that seek the truth and report it without fear or favor to anyone. There is no better example of what he does, and why it makes for such compelling cinema, than TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, which takes on the reasons why a 25-year killing spree by the eponymous serial killer… Read More »

Tagged With: Anitra Washington, backgammon, Barney Broomfield, Christine Pelisek, Christopher Franklin, corruption, DNA testing, documentary, Grim Sleeper murders, incarceration rates, LA Weekly, LAPD, Lonnie Franklin, movie, NHI, Nick Broomfield, No Human Involved, orange pinto, Pam Brooks, peckerwood, racism, serial killer, South Central Los Angeles, TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, Tiffany Haddish, true crime

THE RAVEN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE RAVEN

RAVEN is a mess of a movie. An infuriating mix of amateurish writing and flowery antique speech; of sublime romance and hopeless pedantry; of atmospheric melancholy and risible smugness; of pointless melodrama and a movingly poignant performance by John Cusack as the damned soul, Edgar Allen Poe. The premise is Poe’’s mysterious last few days… Read More »

Tagged With: Baltimore, Edgar Allen Poe, mental oyster, serial killer

MONSTER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

MONSTER

Patty Jenkins’’ film, MONSTER, is brilliant, breathtaking, and completely unforgettable. Those are words that are sorely overused in the land of crit-speak, and yet there are few films that are so very deserving of them. Jenkins’ biographical story of Aileen Wournos, convicted serial killer, has all the earmarks of a tabloid tale from one of… Read More »

Tagged With: Aileen Wournos, based on a true story, Charlize Theron, director, Oscar-winning performance, Patty Jenkins, serial killer, weight gain

ZODIAC (2007)

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

ZODIAC (2007)

The pedestrian way to film the story of ZODIAC, the San Francisco Bay Area serial killer whose rampage extended from the late 1960s through the 1970s, would be to make a taut action thriller with snazzy directing tricks and gung-ho dialogue. Here was a psychopath who hunted people for sport and through a combination of smarts… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, journalist, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, serial killer, Zodiac Killer

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