Stake Land first published by VODzilla.co “Call me Martin,” says the voiceover that opens Stake Land, as we see the young man himself (Connor Paolo) riding in the passenger seat of a car beside a much older man (Nick Damici). “I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe. Things a boy shouldn’t see. But I’m not a normal…
Cold In July first published by FilmLand Empire The opening image of Cold In July shows a barren wilderness, until the camera pulls back revealing both a picture frame, and the domestic mantelpiece above which this landscape painting hangs. It is late at night in East Texas, 1989 – and jittery Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall),…
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks In the rain, a leaf falls from a branch into a creek, and is carried downstream. Beautifully shot (much like everything in Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are), this opening sequence represents an evocative and poetic prefiguration: for not only will a big old tree, sent crashing by…