The Weeknd is the stagename of singer/songwriter Abel Tesfaye – and in Trey Edward Shults’ Hurry Up Tomorrow, which Tesfaye co-wrote, the singer/songwriter in fact plays a singer/songwriter also credited as The Weeknd. Yet this is in no way straight biography, but rather an uneasy, involuted, at times nightmarish tone poem baring the (lost) soul…
Calm With Horses first published by VODzilla.co “That’s not you.” These words are stated – twice by different characters – to Douglas (Cosmo Jarvis), the protagonist of Calm With Horses (aka The Shadow of Violence). Douglas indeed comes with a brutal inner conflict. In a voiceover that opens the film, he states: “I’m told I…
American Animals first published by RealCrime Magazine “This is not based on a true story,” reads text at the beginning of Bart Layton’s American Animals – only for the words ‘not based on’ to disappear. This latest from the director of documentary The Imposter (2012) reconstructs a very real library heist that was conducted at the…