Sunday, July 2, 2017

the blackcoat's daughter: slow-burning doom

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*SPOILER ALERT* (2017. dir: Osgood Perkins) Two girls, abandoned by their parents over the school holiday, are left largely unattended ...
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Friday, May 26, 2017

brimstone: pretending to be a woman's western

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*SPOILER ALERT* (2017. dir: Martin Koolhoven) Hollywood is having a problem creating "the Women's Western". So far there h...
Friday, May 19, 2017

the divorcee and the magnificent robert montgomery

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(1930. dir: Robert Z. Leonard) Robert Montgomery is one of the best actors you'll ever see on film. Why isn't remembered, then,...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

tom hardy double feature: warrior and oliver twist

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Warrior : (2011. dir: Gavin O'Connor) This is a good example of a project doomed from the start. The premise is contrived, hackneyed,...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

two-minute warning: the dawning of a bleak era

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*SPOILER ALERT* (1976. dir: Larry Peerce) About the time that Star Wars and Jaws were about to change the face of Hollywood, two varia...
Friday, December 30, 2016

in a valley of violence: the man with a name and a dog for a girl

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(2016. dir: Ti West) If the directors from the Nouvelle Vague were the first generation of self-reflexive filmmakers, that is, to make fil...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

the belated, truncated halloweenfest: let's scare jessica to death

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(1971. dir: John D. Hancock) The turning of the sixties into the seventies gave us a fascinating moment in horror cinema: Woman v. The Wo...