The Dead Don’t Hurt first published by Sight and Sound, 6 March 2024, for its screening at Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Time plays tricks in writer/director/actor Viggo Mortensen’s mid-nineteenth century oater The Dead Don’t Hurt. For it opens near both end and beginning of its heroine’s life, with the sound of heavy breathing as French-Canadian…
The Road first published by EyeforFilm, 17 Oct 2009 About a third of the way through Cormac McCarthy‘s 2006 novel The Road, the two main characters cautiously watch a passing caravan, with colourfully decorated warriors in the front, then harnessed slaves pulling carts piled with the material spoils of war, then the women, and lastly…
Back in 1970, Crimes of the Future was in fact David Cronenberg’s second feature – but since then both he and the future have changed considerably, and accordingly his latest feature of the same title is in fact an entirely different film, even if it looks back to motifs from his earlier films, especially Rabid…
Falling first published by Movies on Weekends Falling begins with young Willis Peterson (Sverrir Gudnason) bringing his wife Gwen (Hannah Gross) and newborn John home to his farm near the small town of Boonville in upstate New York. In a private moment, as he looks down at Gwen asleep in the car and John gurgling…
The Reflecting Skin first published by VODzilla.co The Reflecting Skin begins with little Seth Dove (Jeremy Cooper) carrying a large frog across a yellow field, and, with help from his friends Eben (Codie Lucas) and Kim (Evan Hall), inflating it with a reed and leaving it in the road. When the adult Dolphin Blue (Lindsay…
Summary: Ed Harris’ sophomore effort as director is an epic oater. Part serious genre entrant, part button-pushing pastiche, it does everything a revisionist western should, and yet is still somehow disappointing. Review: He may be an old hand as an actor, but when it comes to directing, Ed Harris is still a relative beginner. Following on…
Jauja first published by FilmLand Empire Jauja is a real city in Peru. In 1534 it briefly became the nation’s provisional capital until a year later Pizarro settled on Lima instead – and it was also located in a rich area, well supplied with Inca food and clothing, which gave rise to its legendary status amongst…