It Chapter Two first published by Little White Lies In Derry, Maine, time works in mysterious ways. It seems like only a couple of years ago (in It, 2017, retroactively titled It Chapter One) that it was 1989, and Bill (Jaeden Lieberher), Beverly (Sophia Lillis), Ben (Jeremy Ray Taylor), Richie (Finn Wolfhard), Eddie (Jack Dylan Grazer), Stanley (Wyatt…
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Take Shelter (2011)
Take Shelter first published by Film4 Synopsis: Jeff Nichols’ follow-up to Shotgun Stories dramatises the breakdown of a family man and the world around him. Review: “It’s hard to explain because it’s not just a dream. It’s a feeling. I’m afraid something might be coming. Something that’s not right.” 35-year-old Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) keeps having visions that…
A Most Violent Year (2014)
Review first published by FilmLand Empire “If you do right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do right, sin is crouching at the door.” These words are uttered by God to Adam and Eve’s first son Cain in Genesis 4.7. The path of righteousness, however, is not always easy to follow, and…
MAMA (2013)
Review first published by Little White Lies After Wall Street financier Jeffrey Desanges (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) goes postal on two work colleagues and his own wife, he and his young daughters Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nélisse) vanish in the woods. Five years later, the two girls are discovered, alive but wild, in an abandoned…