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The audience already understands Vivienne LeCoudy’s fate (played by Vicky Krieps) from the second scene of Mortensen’s second feature, “The Dead Don’t Hurt.” Her journey begins with a resilient French Canadian pioneer woman who gets left alone for years. She ultimately dies while weeping at home, which creates tears along her decrepit cheeks. Mortensen chooses […]

There are two main types of stories about small town people finding themselves: ones where they move away from the suffocating place where they grew up, and ones where they come back. “Close to You” is the second kind of movie. Written and directed by Dominic Savage, starring Elliot Page in his first lead performance

These words are uttered by one of the 5 teens in André Ovredal’s “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.” The storybook is possessed, and it writes itself. These kids happened to bring it back from a haunted house in Mill Valley PA on 1968 Halloween. Now, shall we look at the formulated components, or

When you have a name like Hope Goldman, two words lacquered in shiny aspirational vibes, you probably know it’s ought to be shared with the masses. Indeed, who wouldn’t want someone named Hope to bring exactly that into their lives; their one-way journey towards the inevitable? In frequent music video director Austin Peters’ nifty and

Director Julian Farino’s “The Union” follows Mike (Mark Wahlberg), a construction worker content with his job, dive bar outings with his friends, and sleeping with his former seventh-grade teacher (an awkward joke that remains a punchline over the course of the film’s entirety). When his adolescent flame, Roxanne (Halle Berry) returns to the east coast

When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a tidal wave of hype, most of it on the negative side. The production of Penthouse Magazine publisher Bob Guccione’s grand experiment in creating an adult film that included the elements innate to a typical Hollywood spectacle was filled with such strife that both

As confronting or narrating the rem-coms context, some people find performance difficult as in posing to be someone or something that they are not. Numerous strategies exist where people are actors in disguise, people switch accents, and all reasonable gestalts are resorted to. At times, such characters do indeed, for instance, Curtis in Some Like

To kick off the Hangman, a flashback is provided linking the imagery to Fulci’s movie, The Beyond. The link recalls that there are seven gates to hell and one of these could be the one that West Virginia is trying to deny the New Orleans hotel trials that were concerned with the area beyond the

More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine, aimed at annexing territory and erasing Ukrainian identity, the conflict rages on but in terms of achieving his strategic objectives, President Vladimir Putin has already lost. In seeking to topple Ukraine’s democratically elected government, dismantle its statehood, and

Congressman Jamie Raskin states at the beginning of the documentary about the January 6th Insurrection ‘The Sixth’ that “Sometimes the truth is like a second chance”. This second chance is like an equalizer for freedom, human rights, and democracy in the US. But the context accompanying Raskin’s interview is at times pretty sobering. On the