David Lynch is a master. Why he is not included along Stanley Kubrick more often is beyond me. I guess I’m not really well-versed enough in film to make those proclamations, but isn’t that what our society is all about? “Hey, I just saw or read something, and now I have an opinion!” Twin Peaks…
DetailsNot to be confused with Olympus Has Fallen from 2013, – oh wait – it’s the same writers and premise just in London. With much of the same cast and horrible jingoistic dialogue. Flag wavin’ shenanigans. So, yeah, it IS to be confused with Olympus Has Fallen. THIS is a sequel and almost the same…
DetailsHey look, another week has passed, and more crazy news has happened. Ain’t that a kick in the head? And I just found out from Variety online that Bruce Willis is going to star in a Death Wish remake! Negotiations to direct are the Israeli team that made Big Bad Wolves in 2013, Aharon Keshales…
DetailsSundance Best Director Winner Robert Eggers’ carefully modulated, highly original 1630s-set “New-England Folktale” is precisely that, and the Friday night gore-cravers and retro-slasher freaks should look elsewhere for their bloody thrills. If not, ten minutes of authentic (literally taken from journals of the period) 1630s Puritan parlance will quickly convince them they’ve picked the wrong…
DetailsLászló Nemes’ Oscar-winning Son of Saul is as experimental as mainstream narrative cinema gets, and as bold. Set in Auschwitz in 1944 during the planning of a prisoner uprising, the film – and, very specifically here, the camera – follows Saul (Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian Jewish prisoner and Sonderkommando, as he tries to do one…
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