This is the fourth for this year and 16th overall review of a film that Steve Honeywell at 1001plus gave me to see. He is doing the same with films from me. This month’s selection is Stake Land, one of the two horror movies Steve gave me this year. I didn’t know if my health situation was going to allow me to get this done on time. I was in pain while watching it and I freely it this may…
This one made the list of Oscar Best Picture nominees for re-creating the 1906 earthquake, not for anything else in it.
Unless you are a holy roller, the depiction of religion in this film will probably make you hate it. The priest is a sanctimonious prick who is perfectly happy to take the lead character's gift of a 4,000 dollar organ for his church, and to say that the two are life long friends, but when the lead wants to…
Haynes revisits the "1950s closeted homosexual" theme he explored in Far from Heaven. The difference is that his earlier film also had other things going on, especially the potential racial romance aspect. Carol has nothing but the main story.
And that story meanders, wanders, stops, starts up again, and just generally is there, rather than having much of any build towards something. Related to this is that everything is presented very distant and antiseptic. I felt nothing between the two…
