Directed by S. Craig Zahler Dragged Across Concrete is a purposefully slow genre movie. It moves with what at first seems like the type of patience that implies something more going on underneath the surface, but ultimately I think it's just the scattered first draft of a movie that isn't sure what it wants to … Continue reading Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
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Hold the Dark (2018)
Directed by Jeremy Saulnier Jeremy Saulnier's movies are violent, even as far as violent movies go. He gets creative with who dies and how, and in some ways it seems all of his stories are constructed in reverse, thinking of a shocking, sensational character death and then constructing a narrative that could lead to this … Continue reading Hold the Dark (2018)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Directed by Sam Peckinpah When I finally got the DVD for Straw Dogs, it came with a large watermark that said, in all caps, "BANNED IN THE UK." This is a violent movie that is likely only this well-known over 40 years later because of that violence, as the marketing reflects. The film is about two … Continue reading Straw Dogs (1971)
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