Directed by Drew Goddard Having seen Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods, it's easy to suspect that there's something otherworldly going on at the El Royale, a stylish but mysteriously sparse hotel that straddles the state line between California and Nevada. Set in the late 60s or early 70s this place is supposed to have been … Continue reading Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Directed by Mike Nichols Martha and George (Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton) are suburban witches in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Their conservative campus residence plays like a nightmarish cottage deep in the woods, to which is drawn a young couple named Nick and Honey (George Segal, Sandy Dennis). The entire film, a very theatrical adaptation of a … Continue reading Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Night Moves (2013)
Directed by Kelly Reichardt In Night Moves three ecoterrorists hatch a plan to blow up a dam. The first half of the film is seen through their eyes, and the second half, after the successful demolition, looks at them from the outside. It is thus a film that neither glorifies nor demonizes their pursuit but instead … Continue reading Night Moves (2013)
Serenity (2019)
Directed by Steven Knight Serenity might just be bad. At least if you take it at face value it's certainly bonkers, however I think there's something under the surface here about the film noir genre as a whole, it's construction, absurdity and the degree to which such worlds and characters are almost parodies of our … Continue reading Serenity (2019)
Night Moves (1975)
Directed by Arthur Penn A film noir with shades of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye and Roman Polanski's Chinatown, Night Moves is a Los Angeles-based detective story in which the private eye hero finds himself in over his head in a convoluted plot wherein nothing is as it seems. In contrast with those other two films, with finales … Continue reading Night Moves (1975)
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
Directed by Norman Jewison A submarine-jul of Russian soldiers run aground on the fictional Gloucester Island, just off the New England coast and ignite the Cold War era fears of the small town in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. The subsequent mob mentality shows how quickly fear and unsubstantiated rumors evolve into anger … Continue reading The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966)
The Chase (1966)
Directed by Arthur Penn It's hard to keep track of all the goings on in Arthur Penn's The Chase. What begins as a slow burn soon erupts into pure chaos as a small Texas town loses its mind while awaiting the arrival of an escaped criminal, Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford). It doesn't much matter who Bubber … Continue reading The Chase (1966)
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