Posts Tagged ‘Fatal Attraction’
Film Review – Deep Water
Twenty years after his last directorial outing, Adrian Lyne has returned to once again explore the depths of toxic relationships. From 9½ Weeks (1986), Fatal Attraction (1987), Indecent Proposal (1993), and Unfaithful (2002), Lyne’s career has been filled with stories of love, infidelity, sexual temptations, and jealousy – usually leading to deadly results. His latest…
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Film Review – Shattered
Nothing good ever happens after midnight. At least that’s what the protagonist of the psychosexual thriller Shattered (2021) should have been thinking. You know you’re in trouble when you run into a beautiful woman at the grocery store soaked from rain asking – in too friendly a…
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Film Review – Greta
Greta (2018) is a nasty bit of fun. Directed and co-written by Neil Jordan (with Ray Wright) this is the story of a young woman named Frances (Chloë Grace Moretz) who – almost by accident – befriends an older woman named Greta (Isabelle Huppert). But…
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Film Review – The Love Witch
“Maybe life could be a fairy tale if you pleased your husband more,” says a self-proclaimed witch to a concerned housewife in Anna Biller’s dark comedy-horror-fantasy, The Love Witch, about how feminine mystique, wiles, and competition attempts to undercut the patriarchy not by switching gender…
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Film Review – The Gift
Whoa. Joel Edgerton’s debut feature The Gift (2015) is good. Actually, it’s really good. Really really good. This might be one of the finest first efforts of an actor turned writer/director since Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone (2007). Edgerton has made a tense psychological drama…
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SXSW Film Review – Snap
Mental illness is a challenging topic to address in film. A lot of times it comes off feeling corny and over the top. Rather than being a part of what a character has to deal with, it becomes who they are, or ends up being…
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Film Review – Hop
Sometimes, when I watch a really good movie, I become so entranced by it that it stays with me long after walking out of the theater. A movie like that wraps me up in its story and doesn’t let go; it sticks in my mind…
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Wishful Thinking – Endings
(PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ARTICLE IS RIDDLED WITH SPOILERS ABOUT MOVIE ENDINGS. IF YOU WANT TO SAVE YOURSELF SOME SURPRISES, AVOID READING SECTIONS ON MOVIES YOU HAVEN’T SEEN YET.) I have often thought throughout the years that one of the chief differences between a good…
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