Knock Knock
From the second I began watching Knock Knock (2015) I began thinking about whether Keanu Reeves really is the new Seymour Cassel. By the end of the film it’s clear… Read more »
Tag: 2010s
Some Guy Who Kills People
Any time you catch Kevin Corrigan just seemingly popping up in something is an utter delight. The guy’s a terrific actor and completely underrated. I remember seeing Pineapple Express (2008)… Read more »
Mom And Dad
Equal parts hilarious and disturbing, writer and director Brian Taylor’s Mom And Dad (2017) is a classic example of horror as social critique. Like Jennifer’s Body (2009) or Dawn Of… Read more »
The To Do List
Long anticipated and then maligned by critics and audiences when it was released, Maggie Carey’s lone feature film The To Do List (2013) was controversial only for its frank depiction… Read more »
Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow’s follow-up to her much acclaimed film The Hurt Locker (2008) was the fictionalized retelling of the historical record of the CIA’s manhunt for Osama bin Laden Zero Dark… Read more »
Night Catches Us
Having lived in and around Philadelphia my entire life I felt a certain affinity for the general milieu of Night Catches Us (2010). Personally, one of the things that I… Read more »
Burlesque
Despite generally unfavorable reviews when it was first released, Burlesque (2010) has gone on to garner a kind of cult following. People enjoy the high camp of the film as… Read more »
Effie Gray
Screenwriter Emma Thompson filters all the elegance and melodrama that is Merchant Ivory Productions’ stock and trade through the emotional evocations of environment which defined Andrea Arnolds’ Wuthering Heights (2011)… Read more »
All Is Bright
With it’s ragtag tail of two Canadian thieves going straight (Paul Giamatti and Paul Rudd) and selling Christmas Trees in Brooklyn, All Is Bright (2013) is a throw back to… Read more »
Cosmos
Cosmos (2015) was the last film that Andrzej Żuławski ever made. It’s clear from the start that Żuławski intends to bid adieu to the cinema. Cosmos is full of self-referential… Read more »
