In her defense, a lot of unexpected information is thrown
her way over the course of the movie.
Not exact matches
Ironically, the film's least effective element is its effort not to do so, by
way of a minor Mexican «bad guy» who's rather studiously humanized
over the
course of the
movie.
Since,
of course, The Lords
of Salem is essentially a horror
movie, it will ultimately go the
way of genre and privilege the supernatural
over the rational, but before that happens, much like the films that it so lovingly apes — Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant, William Friedkin's The Exorcist — it will flex and stretch its ambiguities to uncanny breaking point.
Soderbergh and I spoke
over the
course of a couple days this summer — about his new
movie, Logan Lucky; about his origins as a filmmaker; about his retirement that turned out not to be a retirement at all; about his love for Get Out and the films
of Barry Jenkins; about, in short,
way more than would fit in a single, often condensed magazine story.
Scripted by Guillermo Arriaga (who turned director, himself, in 2008, with the depressingly mediocre The Burning Plain), that
movie followed three separate stories in Mexico City — all involving, in some
way, dogs — as they intersected and diverged
over the
course of many months.
: For all
of the body parts that Stephen King has torn asunder in his numerous books and film adaptations, it's ironic that two
of the most beloved
movies ever about male bonding come from his book «Different Seasons» — a «Body» that spawned the CSI Our Gang
of «Stand By Me,» and the prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic
of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his
way out
of a Maine hellhole
over the
course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one
of the best
movies ever made.
In a number
of past posts
over at Coyote Blog, I have noticed the phenomenon
of published studies whose data does nothing to bolster the theory
of anthropogenic global warming adding in a line or two in the article saying that «
of course the author's support anthorpogenic global warming theory» in the same
way movies routinely assure audiences that «no animals were hurt in the filiming
of this
movie.»
Beer and wine are the logical
way to go for drinks — they're easy to pour and can be sipped
over the
course of a couple
of hours as the
movie plays.