ph: Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Lady Macbeth (2016)
In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.
Intense adaptation of a Russian novel, transplanted from 19th century Russia to the same period in England, fascinates and irritates with a mesmerizing performance by Florence Pugh.
Orange Is the New Black, Season 1 (2013)
Convicted of a decade old crime of transporting drug money to an ex-girlfriend, a normally law abiding woman is sentenced to a year and a half behind bars to face the reality of how life changing prison can really be.
Unusual women's prison drama carefully creates a miniature society with multiple facets and subs-plots; it is at times suspenseful, endearing, tragic, uplifting, enraging, revealing, humorous - and entertaining.
Friday, August 17, 2018
New York
1915. 226 East 23rd Street. A bakery occupies the first floor street level entrance, with new construction to its right.
First Lines: Simon Brett - What Bloody Man Is That?
Charles Paris looked out from the bar of the Pinero Theatre, Warminster, over the gathering September twilight, and felt mildly guilty that he wasn't really listening to what Gavin Scholes was saying.
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Stranger Things, Season 1 (2016)
In 1983 Indiana, a young boy vanishes into thin air, as friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl.
Lovingly recreated homage to 80s Spielberg productions convinces with excellent period details, a great cast of characters and introducing a very unique and mesmerizing persona with the girl Eleven; the mystery itself, however, is not really that exciting.
The Killing (1956)
Crooks plan and execute a daring race-track robbery.
Tough noir-style heist drama, meticulously directed with an unusual time structure and a first-rate cast.
Halliwell**: "Incisive, entertaining, downbeat caper movie clearly influenced by The Asphalt Jungle and Rififi."
Maltin***1/2: "The film that really put Kubrick on the map - a case study of a racetrack heist, with a colorful cast of characters...Major flaw: the Dragnet-style narration."
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Monday, August 13, 2018
First Lines: Caroline Graham - The Killings at Badger’s Drift
She had been walking in the woods just before teatime when she saw them.
