Directed by Ben Wheatley Sightseers is a wonderful but bleak dark comedy. It's edgy but not just for the sake of being edgy. Even if I don't yet understand what exactly the darkness of Tina and Chris (Alice Lowe, Steve Oram) represents, it's ingrained in their characters and the story as a whole. It's not … Continue reading Sightseers (2012)
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Beetlejuice (1988)
Directed by Tim Burton Beetlejuice is a macabre wonder. It's a blend of the same bright, colorful, purposefully Mayberry-esque small town that you see in David Lynch's Blue Velvet, with the dark and slimy world of something like a German expressionist horror film. Adam and Barbara (Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis), are a happilyy married couple in that … Continue reading Beetlejuice (1988)
