Neil Jordan’s first feature film as writer-director mostly works – it’s about 80% successful in its careful portrayal of an Irish saxophonist (Stephen Rea) who goes on a revenge spree after his manager and a deaf mute are killed by a local gang that may have connections above street-level…
After the success of Cal (1984), director pat O’Connor shifted to a film version of J.L. Carr’s quiet bromance A Month in the Country, in which two WWI vets strike up a moving friendship and attempt to move on with life in spite of lingering trauma from life in the trenches…
Some thoughts on this past Sunday’s screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) with Bernard Herrmann’s magnificent score performed live by the TSO at Roy Thompson Hall, and some Hitchcock stuff.
Review of the creepy Belgian forest slasher Cub (2014) from Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada + a blatant publishing plug + and memories of being a cub scout.
Belgian Jonas Govaerts’ feature film debut is a sleek homage to the forest slasher sub-genre, as presented with the sounds and imagery of a John Carpenter production, and while the finale has its share of problems, as a mood piece it’s a fairly satisfying work featuring a strong cast and a provocative premise of whether a troubled child can resist feral urges when pushed to the limits self-preservation…
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