Movies

Sexy Beast

A monster arrives in your home. The monster blusters. The monster threatens. The monster beats you. The monster threatens you. But you stay strong. The monster leaves. But then it returns. And you

Only Lovers Left Alive

Vampires. Zombies. Fucking vampires. Fucking zombies. Fucking undead in general. I am fed to the back teeth with allegedly novel and actually uninteresting variations on things that go bump in the night. Run,

What We Do In The Shadows

"It's just a big homoerotic dick-biting circle." OK, so having inveighed against vampire movies I've watched two on this flight. What We Do In The Shadows is

A Thought from the French Film Festival

Last Monday we opened French class with a discussion of this year's French Film Festival. One of the questions my teacher asked was what difference we noticed between French and American

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

I'm pretty late to the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon party, to put it mildly, but I'm glad I chose to backfill with this one; it's fairly uncharted