Directed by Kevin Kölsch, Dennis Widmyer Pet Sematary is a grim, self-serious and nearly identical remake of the odd 1989 film of the same name. I'm surprised to find such rigid devotion to the source material considering that older film was kind of atrocious. In fact this film, while not exactly bad, is similarly atrocious. … Continue reading Pet Sematary (2019)
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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)
Chappaquiddick (2017)
Directed by John Curran Go read the youtube comments under the trailer for Chappaquiddick, it's quite strange and eye-opening, not to the way things are but the disparate narratives people can pull from the same thing. I didn't view this as a movie about politics but rather about power, privilege and little else. The top comments on … Continue reading Chappaquiddick (2017)
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