Once again, I am thoroughly impressed by this trilogy. The Eastwood and Van Cleef duo was phenomenal. There’s a seasoned, sharp, yet witty bounty hunter, paired with a young, quiet, archetypical cowboy. The scene where Mortimer patiently walks over to his hat that Monco had shot away from his feet a few times only for him to bend down and it reappear 20 feet behind him with the whiz of a revolver…cinema.
Clint Eastwood already looked really good in A…
I’ve recently come to terms with the fact that I have made no indication as to why The Seventh Seal remains one of my favourite films of all time–besides its presence at the top of my profile.
I am deeply afflicted by films centered around Christianity, for I find that most religious films are convoluted messages of the world of devotion, only to be used as propaganda for the ‘proper’ belief; However, that is the exact reason why I love…
I personally would not classify this as horror, but rather a suspenseful film that does everything it sets out to do.
Its most successful scares are the suspension that it builds throughout (with the exception of one jump scare, accompanied with very aggressive music, much akin to Derrickson’s style in Sinister).
I very much prefer this type of modern horror as opposed to the ‘psychological’ and ‘abstract’ films like Hereditary or Spiderhead. I am not familiar with the source material, but I…
This was too good.
“Losing the time” was an obvious indication only ten minutes in, and I knew it wasn’t enough. No, Primal Fear wouldn’t lose it’s off-putting ambiance to the ironic simplicity of pronouncing Dissociative Identity Disorder as the demon of it all—a mere excuse for his culpability. And I am so glad it didn’t.
B32.156 was perhaps the clearest sign; I never expected it to pertain to the archbishop, and rather I associated it with Aaron himself. But I…
