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movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

December 7, 2023

Poor Things: Life Among the Dead, by Scott Nye

Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite, Dogtooth) has never been one for subtlety, though at least he can look to novelist Alasdair Gray for giving him a character named God who creates new life in a young woman. Godwin Baxter...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 28, 2022

Dead for a Dollar: I’d Buy That, by David Bax

Let’s just start off by acknowledging that Walter Hill‘s Dead for a Dollar is a good movie because I want that to be the first thing you read before I lay out some of the problems with it. The main...

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...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 21, 2021

Siberia: Wide Open, by Alexander Miller

When you watch Abel Ferrera’s Siberia, you’ll be tempted to “figure it out” and engage with the film the way you would with any conceptual work of art. This might sound biased or opinionated but if you go into this...

movie journal / scott nye

February 7, 2021

Scott’s Movie Journal #7

The Climb (Michael Angelo Covino, 2019) (first view) A very promising debut. Each scene is handled in one shot, and while its bravura sometimes threatens to eclipse its beauty, the writing and performances are so honest that it doesn’t really...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 3, 2020

Tommaso: A Director Prepares, by David Bax

When Tommaso (Willem Dafoe), the title character in Abel Ferrara’s new film, dances like a goofball dad along to the song being performed on a corny, televised variety show, it seems almost like we’re going to be treated to an...

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’...

josh long / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 5, 2018

Vox Lux: God Is a Woman, by Josh Long

The transition from actor to director isn’t always a smooth one but Brady Corbet is making that move quietly and deftly. His debut feature, 2015’s haunting The Childhood of a Leader flew under the radar for most moviegoers, but was...

Tagged: willem dafoe

Poor Things: Life Among the Dead, by Scott Nye

Dead for a Dollar: I’d Buy That, by David Bax

The Cast of Cthulhu: The Lighthouse

Siberia: Wide Open, by Alexander Miller

Scott’s Movie Journal #7

Tommaso: A Director Prepares, by David Bax

The Lighthouse: Bewitched, by Dave Platt

TIFF 2019: The Lighthouse, by David Bax

Cannes 2019: The Lighthouse, by Luiz Oliveira

Vox Lux: God Is a Woman, by Josh Long

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