Posts Tagged ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’
Film Review – Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay, the critically acclaimed writer/director of Morvern Callar (2002), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), and You Were Never Really Here (2017) is back with her latest, Die My Love (2025). This time, she tackles the trials and tribulations of parenthood, relationships, and the struggles of finding balance within an increasingly…
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Episode 22 – 2010s Horror
For this episode of the podcast, we each draft five of our favorite horror films released between 2010 and 2019. We discuss what horror has meant to the cinema of the last ten years and shout out our many honorable mentions. For our Netflix homework,…
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Top 10 of 2012 – Ed’s Picks
2012 was a terrific year at the movies. 2010 and 2011 both felt a little underwhelming at the time. There was some good work, to be sure, but the amount of work that felt new or exciting was less and less. However, this last year…
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Film Review – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Young love isn’t the easiest thing to accurately represent. The highs and devastating lows of teenage infatuation have surely and wholly consumed most reading this at some point, and, when depicted well on screen, can take us right back to the pain associated with these…
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Episode 153 – DVD Rundown 5-29-2012
Spencer and Greg give their DVD rundown for May 29th, 2012. In this episode they discuss True Blood, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Goon.
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Episode 131 – The Danger Zone
In honor of The Hunger Games, Spencer and Greg discuss child deaths in film. Then they discuss the theme of “one vs. many,” and give DVD picks of the week.
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Film Review – We Need to Talk About Kevin
When you have Tilda Swinton’s face available to you for use as a storytelling tool, you employ it for all that it’s worth. Lynne Ramsay, in her new film We Need to Talk About Kevin, finally opening in the U.S. today, understands this truth. Swinton is…
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Bird Watching – Top 5 Most Anticipated Films Directed by Women
If there’s one thing I hope I’ve done with this column so far, it’s show that though the overall percentages may be very skewed toward male filmmakers, there are many, many interesting projects out there being made by women. The numbers are getting better all…
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