Directed by Karyn Kusama Destroyer is one of those films about a broken character whose present day storyline runs parallel to a recollection of a past storyline that broke said character. Both stories reach their climax at the same time so that, in a sense, the trauma of the past directly affects the present. Another … Continue reading Destroyer (2018)
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Christine (2016)
Directed by Antonio Campos Okay, so Christine is a mix of Network (1976), Nightcrawler (2014), Blue Jasmine (2013) and Taxi Driver (1976). Set in 1974, the story of a local news reporter plays out in the shadow of the Woodward and Bernstein takedown of Richard Nixon which is chronicled in another 1976 film, All the President's Men. Christine Chubbuck, the … Continue reading Christine (2016)