By David Ryan. Where horror often permits the restoration of human order by containing or defeating the evil spirit, monster or demon, existential crisis films confront audiences with the dramatic and inevitable loss of human […]
By Robert Guffey. For no matter who eats who first, the grave swallows both father and son in time….” What follows is a brief excerpt from my latest book, Hollywood Haunts the World: An Investigation […]
By William Blick. A slow burn that simmers into a boil…[and] a compelling exploration of antisemitism and miscarriage of justice….” Roman Polanski’s 2019 political thriller An Officer and a Spy, which will see […]
Nu har äntligen sommaren kommit och jag har precis plågat mig igenom en Netflixserien Adolescence. Den handlar om en familj som blir uppryckta av polis tidigt en morgon för att deras 13-årige […]
KRIMI. Bengt Eriksson har läst ”Städerskans nyckel” av Nita Prose och hyllar hennes författarskap. Deckarhyllan bjuder därtill även denna gång på intressanta boktips. Den kanadensiska deckarförfattaren Nita Prose och […]
By Jonathan Monovich. For its Australian setting and premise of a man’s descent into insanity, The Surfer unsurprisingly has similarities to the late Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971), but the charm of […]
By Ken Hall. Ahlam’s mission acquires a Hitchcockian aspect as this law-abiding artist in the US becomes trapped in a situation which she does not understand, with mysterious people posing a threat to […]
Companion är en film som helst ska ses utan några som helst förkunskaper. Den som vill uppskatta filmen till fullo har härmed fått en tillbörlig spoilervarning; resten av recension kommer […]
By James Slaymaker. Shyamalan’s careful misdirection reveals much about his protagonist, the society he lives in, and the capacity of cinematic form to perpetuate dominant cultural values.” Spoilier Alert In the final sequence of […]
By David Ryan. Writer-director Pascal Plante connects the complicated mechanisms of justice, social contagions, and psychological complexity to explore two dominant themes: the film contrasts the courtroom’s brightly lit (and tightly-controlled) semiotics […]