THEY CALLED IT FILTH. IT BECAME A REVOLUTION. After fighting in World War II, Finnish veteran Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang) tries to find himself, as a gay man in a society that won’t tolerate it, and as a fledgling artist. He was certainly controversial, with his drawings of men in leather and tight jeans, sporting … Continue reading Tom of Finland
Many of you are bound to remember a scene in this film where 45-year-old Anne seduces a teenaged boy in his bed. There’s nothing subtle about it; when she goes down on him, we see everything, even if that convincing (and flattering) penis is fake. It’s a revealing situation in every sense of the word. … Continue reading Queen of Hearts: Losing Her Splendor
AVENGE THE FALLEN. Five years after the events of Infinity War, the remaining Avengers realize that there can be a way of traveling back in time to stop Thanos. The fourth Avengers film is a glorious, three-hour end in 3D to what we’ve seen ever since Iron Man (2008), cleverly and nostalgically connecting us to … Continue reading Avengers: Endgame
HE WENT SEARCHING FOR LOVE… BUT FATE FORCED A DETOUR TO REVELRY… VIOLENCE… MYSTERY! Pianist Al Roberts (Tom Neal) is headed to California where his girlfriend is trying to launch a career, but an unexpected death changes the journey… One of the most famous films that Edgar G. Ulmer made has become perhaps the most … Continue reading Detour
CROSS THE LINE. DEATH WILL FOLLOW YOU BACK. Medical student Courtney Holmes (Ellen Page) is interested in finding out what happens right after you die and convince other students to join her in a dangerous experiment. A remake of the 1990 movie that feels considerably more conventional. The horror ingredients are still part of the … Continue reading Flatliners
IT’S BEAUTIFUL. IT’S EROTIC. IT’S TERRIFYING. THEY KNOW. THEY’VE CROSSED THE LINE. Five medical students begin experimenting with what happens right after you die by flatlining for one minute until the others resuscitate. A thriller with horror elements as each student who participates in the experiments is haunted by something awful from their past that … Continue reading Flatliners
THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ESCAPE EVER FILMED! The man whose life was depicted in Papillon, a film that was a big hit in 1973, didn’t live to see the final results but was present during the making of it, reportedly ensuring that the adaptation of his memoirs was as correct as possible. That may seem … Continue reading Papillon: Stuck on Devil’s Island
FIRST THE WHITE HOUSE. THEN THE WORLD. One of two documentary portraits of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon made about the same time (the other one being Errol Morris’s American Dharma), this one following him as he embarks on his next projects – getting Republicans elected during the 2018 U.S. midterms and trying to build … Continue reading The Brink
SHE WANTS YOUR CHILDREN. In 1973, social worker Anna Tate-Garcia (Linda Cardellini) accidentally releases an evil spirit, La Llorona, that immediately goes after her two kids. Another entry in the Conjuring universe (with a brief nod to Annabelle (2014)), this time introducing a ghost inspired by an actual Mexican folk tale, a weeping woman who … Continue reading The Curse of La Llorona
A family living an isolated life somewhere in the woods after a contagious outbreak wiped out most of the population suddenly get a visitor… Trey Edward Shults wrote this relentlessly dark story as a way to deal with his father’s death; that’s also sort of how the film begins. A thriller with horror elements (including … Continue reading It Comes at Night
THE PAST NEVER FORGETS. Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) is hired to get her hands on a computer program built to access the world’s nuclear codes. Seven years after The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo came this sequel, based on a novel that wasn’t part of the original ”Millennium” trilogy. Intensely focused on Salander’s past and … Continue reading The Girl in the Spider’s Web
SOME STARS SHINE FOREVER. In 1980, two of the tennis world’s biggest names, Björn Borg and John McEnroe (Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf), prepare for a showdown at Wimbledon. The kind of sports drama where two athletes compete for glory and we realize that they have more in common than they would admit. Borg was cool … Continue reading Borg vs McEnroe
FIND YOUR KINGDOM. When Disney started looking for another place to build a theme park, they began what was called ”The Florida Project”. Eventually, in the 1960s, that would become Walt Disney World, situated near Bay Lake in Orange County, Florida. Consisting of several theme parks and resorts, it’s not an exaggeration to say that … Continue reading Florida Project: In Disney’s Shadow
