Movies 7 years ago

Movie Review: Midsommar (2019) – Shocking, Twisted. . Genuine Horror

Midsommar is a film written and directed by Ari Aster, starring Florence Pugh, that is very, very interesting, and it packs a punch. The movie is about a cult in Sweden and the summer solstice. Everyone seems friendly,…

Movies 7 years ago

‘Get Out’ (2017). Movie Review

Jordan Peele writes and directs his debut feature, a work of intrigue and horror loaded with… interracial themes.…

Movies 7 years ago

‘Melancholia’ (2011), by Lars von Trier: Heartbreaking

A mixture of seemingly opposing genres that blend together in this original work by Lars von Trier. Melancholia…

Movies 7 years ago

Anna: Luc Besson revisits La Femme Nikita with Sasha Luss, and the echo still has teeth

A slick, professionally made spy thriller that Luc Besson has constructed before — and done better. Helen Mirren…

Movies 7 years ago

Terminator: Dark Fate makes the bravest call the franchise ever made

Tim Miller and James Cameron had the nerve to kill John Connor in the opening minutes and rebuild…

Movies 7 years ago

‘Nymphomaniac’ (2013). Movie Review

A film about a girl who lives her life given to erotic pleasures, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and directed…

Movies 7 years ago

‘Martyrs’ (2008) Movie Review: Cruelty to the Extreme

Pascal Laugier is the writter and director of this gore movie, Martyrs, about brutality. Not suitable for all…

Movies 7 years ago

Us (2019)

Jordan Peele, director of Get Out, directs this rather surprising horror film in the vein of The Body…

Movies 7 years ago

The House That Jack Built: Lars von Trier turns murder into a mirror

Few films in recent memory demand this much of a viewer while offering so little comfort in return.…

Movies 7 years ago

Margin Call shows capitalism eating its own children, in real time, with a glass of fine whisky

The financial thriller that strips away the excess and the metaphor and leaves you staring at something far…

Movies 7 years ago

Antichrist — the Lars von Trier film that turns grief into something worse

The prologue is in black and white, in slow motion, under Handel’s aria Lascia ch’io pianga: a couple…

Movies 7 years ago

‘Scream’ (1996). Movie Review

Wes Craven directs this film that made a big splash at the time, a slasher satire that revitalized…

Movies 7 years ago

‘Assassination Nation’ (2016). Movie Review

Sam Levinson writes and directs this exciting Assassination Nation, starring Bella Thorne. A quasi-dystopia about leaks, adolescence and…