Posts Tagged ‘Ben Wheatley’
Film Review – The Ghoul
There’s a certain kind of horror film that is distinctly British: occult driven and somewhat ambiguous, with the participants deep down unsurprised about the goings on based on a shared cultural heritage of paganism. (I’d actually really love to see one of these films with…
READ MOREFilm Review – Free Fire
There are a lot of reasons why people choose a life of crime. Some do it out of an act of desperation – as though they feel like they have no way out of where life has placed them. Others might do it as an…
READ MOREFilm Review – High-Rise
Our comfortable little lives are built on waste, corpses, and ecosystem-destroying carbon emissions. Those words are as easy for you to read on your slave-built mobile phone as it is to write from my own slave-built machine, the horror amplified all the more by the…
READ MORETop 10 Films of 2014 – Adelaide’s List
I’m a grumpy middle-aged lady, and I want to see films when I want to see them—which is often long after they’ve left the theater. So my top ten 2014 is composed of new-to-me films from any year. Also, “top” does not necessarily mean “best”…
READ MOREFilm Review – Kill List
Kill List starts off with a subtle air of tension. Jay (Neil Maskell) is currently unemployed, with a wife and child. We soon learn he hasn’t had a job in over a year, and the last one he did have did not go well. His…
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