I wrote about "Byzantium" & its anti-colonial/anti-patriarchal themes, dialectics, and storytelling/historicity as liberatory act.
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A Dark Song 2016
I wrote at length about the moving climax of the film and the power contained in its final line of dialogue. (Total spoilers contained therein.)
“The Power to Forgive:” The Grace Note of Occult Horror Film “A Dark Song”
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Beast 2017
An effective slow-building dramatic thriller and doomed romance about Moll, a woman with a youthful act of violence in her past that has been a cloud over her life ever since, and a suspicious man who comes to her rescue one day and for whom she gradually develops feelings. When Pascal comes under suspicion for a series of abductions and murders on the small isle of Jersey, the social pressures of the provincial community and a hurtful, oppressive mother form…
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Barbarian 2022
(very minor spoilers, I guess, but tbh everything about this deserves to be spoiled and they've only themselves to blame for their shitty ideas and deeply cynical marketing)
I'm over here just having finished the latest slop that the horror movie world is calling fun and twisty and wild and good and just feeling really out of step with things at the moment, because although this starts out pretty strong it just left me feeling deeply annoyed by the time…
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The Viewing 2022
The most satisfying episode of the series and of Panos Cosmatos's filmography, there is an expected psychedelic and fugue-like atmosphere in this and more mysteries to intrigue the audience in the opening ten minutes than in any of the episodes that came before, with a greater number of recognizable faces too. Several people, experts in fields like music, writing, psychic powers, and astrophysics, are gathered at a mysterious house owned by a mysterious drugged up Peter Weller and his hot…
