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  • Morvern Callar

    Morvern Callar

    ★★★½

    Taken for themselves, the titular character's actions in Morvern Caller are unethical at best: after her boyfriend commits suicide, she cuts up his body, dumps it in a hole and publishes his recently finished novel under her own name. Yet the film doesn't pass judgement on her. Her motives aren't ever laid out explicitly, but we do get a look into her bleak circumstances of a low-wage worker in a desolate area. Samantha Morton's Performance is devoid of emotional outbursts,…

  • Cluny Brown

    Cluny Brown

    ★★★★

    A delightful comedy featuring usual fish out of water or mistaken identity scenarios and, of course, loads of sexual double entendres, Cluny Brown most notably pulls no punches when it comes to its targets. In its first it ightly wanders from one character to the next for the right amount of time to establish their personality and draw some jokes from it. With the titular character's engagement as a maiden comes a tighter locational and narrational focus, after which the…

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  • Night of the Living Dead

    Night of the Living Dead

    ★★★★

    This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

    Although Night of the Living Dead is the starting point of the whole subgenre of zombie films, it’s not primarily about zombies (or ghouls as they are called here). What it actually cares more about is the reaction to the zombie invasion. The beginning not only serves as a typical introduction to the threat by showing a young man and young woman being attacked, it shows Barbra being teased for her sheepishness and thereby establishing her extreme inability to handle…

  • The Hateful Eight

    The Hateful Eight

    ★★★

    It doesn't exactly feel like self-parody and it doesn't exactly feel like Tarantino jumped the shark, but The Hateful Eight most definitely does not feel as well crafted as any of his other films bar Death Proof. The bursts of gory violence are timed for big laughs, but the narrative lacks the usual mix of importance, freshness and cleverness. Awkward slow-motion, a puzzlingly pointless flashback and the use of a special narrator move the film past the edge to overindulgent…