crime
ONLY GOD FORGIVES
There’s an awful lot of violence, and a great deal of red, and hardly any screenplay and just a mere hint of emotion in Nicolas Winding Refn’s controversial new movie that the Critics have either vehemently panned or praised lavishly: there is no sitting on the fence on this one. Julien, a man of very…
THE ACT OF KILLING
The subject of Joshua Oppenheimer’s fiercely compelling documentary is definitely one of the most evil and sadistic acts of genocide that I have ever seen on the silver screen. It tells some of the stories of the Indonesian death squads of the mid 1960’s who tortured and killed over one million ‘communists’ at the behest…
Animal Kingdom
The opening scene of this gritty crime thriller movie shows Jay, a teenage boy, at home calmly watching ‘Deal or No Deal’ on the TV as his heroin addicted mother has just O.D. on the couch besides him. His grandmother, who has been estranged from her daughter for years, rushes over to pick…
THE Jeffrey Dahmer Files
The gruesome story of Jeffrey Dahmer the infamous serial killer and sex offender who murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, has already been the subject of several films and television programs, and its highly questionable whether there is need for yet another take on these murders. Newbie writer/director Chris James Thompson, a…
