Tagged: robert eggers

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 21, 2022

The Northman: Good Expectations, by David Bax

In a number of ways, most especially in terms of budget, The Northman is Robert Eggers’ most ambitious film so far. And in the sets, the sprawling locations, the visual effects and the deep bench of notable actors, that financial...

cast of cthulhu / james mccormick / jim rohner / movies / podcast

November 17, 2021

The Cast of Cthulhu: The Lighthouse

After a long delay caused by the non-zero chance that the boys were marooned by weather in an eldritch beacon, the boys found someone who likes their lobster in Stephen Foxworthy, co-host of the Disenfranchised podcast! 2019 was a banger of a...

dave platt / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 18, 2019

The Lighthouse: Bewitched, by Dave Platt

From its opening overture, Robert Eggers’s mesmerizing sophomore feature The Lighthouse is permeated with an inexorable sense of creeping, otherworldly dread. The scenario is simple: Thomas Wake (Dafoe), a seasoned and ever-so-salty veteran of the sea and Ephraim Winslow (Pattinson),...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 9, 2019

TIFF 2019: The Lighthouse, by David Bax

Robert Eggers’ thrilling, garish, wonderfully off-putting and hilarious portrait of insanity, The Lighthouse, starts with a churning, percussive score indicating the two main characters’ level-headed determination on their way to get a job done. That sense is comically short-lived, though,...

2019 / cannes / cannes 2019 / luiz oliveira / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 21, 2019

Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira

Not since the Overlook hotel appeared on screen has any piece of remote real estate been so ominous and obviously dangerous as the simple, weather-beaten lighthouse on the coast of Maine that sits atop a cragged landscape in Robert Eggers’...

movies / tyler smith

May 30, 2017

10 Directors Who Could Save the Alien Franchise, by Tyler Smith

While some found the recent Alien: Covenant to be a return to form for the franchise, I found the film to be occasionally intriguing, sometimes insufferable, and ultimately forgettable. A bland, by-the-numbers film has no business being a part of...

Tagged: robert eggers

The Northman: Good Expectations, by David Bax

The Cast of Cthulhu: The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse: Bewitched, by Dave Platt

TIFF 2019: The Lighthouse, by David Bax

Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira

10 Directors Who Could Save the Alien Franchise, by Tyler Smith

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