The Wicker Man – 1973

Thrillers have a lot of common elements, they all build in intensity and eventually reach a critical moment from which tghere is no coming back. In the Wicker Man a policeman is called to a small island community to investigate the disappearance of a young girl, but what he discovers is a broader conspiracy. The […]

Kynodontas – 2009

Dogtooth is one of those movies that makes you stop and ask, “What the hell am I watching?” There are a lot of moments in viewing films that this is a bad question, but in the case of Dogtooth, it simply adds to the dangerous peculiarity of the film. Yorgos Lanthimos is a Greek director […]

99 Homes – 2014

America is a place where people believe that they can accomplish anything, where they can have anything, where they can do anything. 99 Homes is the cold hard reality of the American dream. The film follows a single father named Nash who loses his family home during the housing collapse. He then finds himself working […]

Subgenre: Survival Film

Survival For the second time in less than a year, I am preparing my house for a hurricane. The lengths to which I am going to ensure my house survives makes me think about films in which people have gone up against impossible odds, only to survive circumstances far more severe than mine. So, with […]

Victoria – 2015

A long shot, that’s the best way to describe Victoria. This film could have gone very wrong. Sebastian Schipper put his heart and soul into this film and it shows in the finished project. To take a cast of young actors and create a film done in one 140 minute take, proves exactly how painstaking […]