ph: Craig McDean
Saturday, October 2, 2021
Next of Kin (1982)
In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.
Superior horror film nicely builds up the mystery and the tension, but in the end goes no holds barred.
Halliwell (no star): "Slow-starting but finally over-the-top melodrama, with elements drawn from Psycho, Taste of Fear and a score of other creepies."
Friday, October 1, 2021
The Movies I Watched in September
9/11 2002 7/10
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes 1972 10/10
L'aîné des Ferchaux 1963 6/10
Audrey 2020 6/10
Big Night 1996 8/10
Encounters at the End of the World 2007 7/10
Une femme est une femme 1961 8/10
Hollywood Story 1951 6/10
Indien 1993 8/10
Infinite 2021 5/10
Kuroi ame 1989 8/10
Let Them All Talk 2020 7/10
Die Nackte und der Satan 1959 6/10
Neko no ongaeshi 2002 7/10
Papurika 2006 7/10
Point Blank 1967 7/10
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu 2019 7/10
Rio Grande 1950 7/10
Schitts Creek Season 1 (2015) 7/10
Schitts Creek Season 2 (2016) 7/10
Shikoku 1999 6/10
Shiva Baby 2020 7/10
Stark Fear 1962 6/10
Tonight For Sure 1962 3/10
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 9/10
First Lines: Norman Mailer - The Executioner's Song
Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Why Did You Kill Me? (2021)
The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.
Ambiguous, but compelling chronicle shows a dubious, but successful attempt to catch a killer; basically a very sad story revealing the harrowing effect and impact of meth addiction on all involved.
