Necrophiliakissed-19961996Controversially charged Canadian film where mortuary assistant Molly Parker develops an obsession with having sex with corpses
Feb 26, 2007The Death of TV Superman George Reeves/True Crime
The Death of TV Superman George Reeves/True Crimehollywoodland-20062006A film based around the suicide of tv's Superman George Reeves, questioning whether it was a murder. The details are discussed in depth without ever arriving at a solution, while the casting adds up to an absorbing mystery
Pagan Religionwicker-man-20062006The 1973 version of The Wicker Man is a cult classic; this is one of the worst remakes of all time that gets nothing about the original right, blunts its themes about religion and tosses in crude shocks and killings
Grim Post-Holocaust Survivalismroad-20092009The extraordinary poetry of Cormac McCarthy's novel about a man trying to retain his humanity amid the harsh struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world is necessarily weakened in being translated to screen but the film still does a fine job of capturing the essence of the book
Dystopian Internet-Addicted Futuredarwin-20162016This imagines a future where people have become so absorbed in online communication that they live in isolated cubicles. An interesting idea that the film does zero to make believable
Nov 12, 2017Stephen King Adaptation/Rural Murder Plot
Stephen King Adaptation/Rural Murder Plotnineteen-22-20172017A Stephen King adaptation, this is less the jumpshocks of It than a work of dark brooding psychology as a farmer contemplates the murder of his wife. Think Days of Heaven by way of Grant Wood's American Gothic
May 5, 2023Disney Remake/Children’s Adventures in a Magic Land
Disney Remake/Children’s Adventures in a Magic Landpeter-pan-and-wendy-20232023Disney conduct a live-action remake of their Peter Pan and promisingly place it in the hands of David Lowery, director of A Ghost Story and The Green Knight