Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon deliver a clever, witty, self-aware, love letter to horror movie fandom featuring a pre-Thor Chris Hemsworth.
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‘Burn After Reading’ – unclassified CIA laughs on Amazon Prime
Burn After Reading (2008) – After the darkness of No Country for Old Men, the Coen Bros. eased up with a deadpan espionage farce played out by small fish convinced that they are in deep waters, a film much lighter and significantly slighter but put together with such perfection that you can’t help but be […]
‘Bone Tomahawk’ with Kurt Russell on Amazon Prime
Bone Tomahawk (2015), the other 2015 western starring Kurt Russell, is no knock-off created to cash in on Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. The feature debut by writer / director S. Craig Zahler is a sturdy frontier western about strong but decidedly mortal settlers who take the responsibilities of community seriously, and its odyssey takes them […]
‘Let Me In’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD
Let Me In (2010), a remake of Let the Right One In, the Swedish coming-of-age horror movie-turned-adolescent survival drama in the wilds of suburban civilization, is as unexpected as can be: an American revision of a celebrated European film that honors the original while translating its anxiety and unease to a distinctly American setting. If […]