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Regression ** (2015, Ethan Hawke, Emma Watson, David Thewlis) – Movie Review
A father (David Dencik) walks into a police station and confesses to a crime he has no memory of committing – abusing his daughter (Emma Watson). Writer-director Alejandro Amenábar’s ambitious and unsettling thinking person’s thriller tackles urgent […]
Kes ***** (1969, David Bradley, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1481
Director Ken Loach’s 1969 film is his masterpiece, a superb British humanist, realist film. It is a bleak, despairing but not negative experience and it is lit up with a heartrending performance by the young David […]
August: Osage County (Streep/Roberts) – Film Review
A stagey, sub-Tennessee Williams family drama unfolds as all the skeletons come out of the closet when nasty, cancer-stricken, dysfunctional matriarch Violet Weston (Meryl Streep)’s family gather at their Oklahoma house for the patrirch’s funeral […]
Peeping Tom **** (1960, Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley) – Classic Movie Review 605
Director Michael Powell’s 1960 colour British psychological horror-thriller shocker Peeping Tom is an eye-opening insider’s look at voyeurism and the mechanics of the film-making process, disguised as a lurid psychological thriller. This nightmarishly disturbing horror movie is […]
Short Term 12 **** (2013, Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr, Rami Malek, Kaitlyn Dever, Keith Stanfield, Melora Walters) – Movie Review
The 24-year-old Brie Larson stars as Grace, a 20-something supervising staff member of a foster care home, who has been abused herself. In writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton’s feature debut, Grace navigates the troubled waters of […]