Mowgli
Word to the wise – it gets very dark at one point. Almost Artax-level dark.
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Tag Archives: Fable
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
We’re in familiar territory for Lanthimos here, and perhaps that’s what holds The Killing of a Sacred Deer back.
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Mother!
Sometimes you just have to see what all the fuss is about for yourself, you know? I mean, how bad could it be?
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Tale of Tales
The performances are strong, but it’s Cave that really impresses as Violet, the daughter of the King of Highmountain.
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Over the Garden Wall
Think of it as a kind of North American gothic fairy-tale meets European folklore, much like the work of Washington Irving.
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Leviathan
It’s not that these performances aren’t good – they’re great – it’s just that the script is so damn determined to have everything go to sh*t.
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The Infinite Man
Then we get to the major letdown with The Infinite Man: this really is a story about a guy trying to get the girl, no matter what. And that’s it.
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Maleficent
The shades of grey are quite surprising for a Disney family film, and whilst we aren’t watching ‘Game of Thrones’, there’s definitely some good and some bad in Maleficent.
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The Rover
The film will definitely find an audience, but the fact that the trailer woefully misrepresents the film – as happened with The Road too actually – is bound to leave some people angry.
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Noah
God is pretty vindictive in his absence here, though anyone familiar with Aronofsky’s work knows that the writer/director isn’t about to include a big spectral bearded chap explaining to Noah the difference between Sumerian cubits and Egyptian royal cubits.
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