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Benedetta (2021)

February 12, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Salacious! Scandalous!

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2021, benedetta, lgbtq+, paul verhoeven, sex, thriller

The Card Counter (2021)

February 10, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Heart of an anvil, body of a breeze

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2021, anti military, drama, gambling, misanthropy, oscar isaac, paul schrader, political, post 9/11, tye sheridan, willem dafoe

Smooth Talk (1985)

February 3, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Sticky fumblings in the back seat

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1985, adolescence, coming of age, drama, joyce carol oates, joyce copra, laura dern, mary kay place, rape culture, sex, smooth talk, tom cole

The Hit (1984)

January 27, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Teen spirit, old man spiritualism, and the hard life of crime

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1984, crime, existentialism, john hurt, spain, spritualism, stephen frears, terence stamp, the hit, tim roth, uk

Father (1988)

January 21, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

The father as an familial fuckboy

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1988, drama, Eiji Bandô, family, father, japan, Keisuke Kinoshita, Kin Sugai, Kiwako Taichi, Makoto Nonomura

Terror In A Texas Town (1958)

January 18, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Sterling Hayden with a dubious Swedish accent, stolid Swedish values

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1958, dalton trumbo, joseph h. lewis, nedrick young, ray rennahan, social values, sterling haydn, terror in a texas town, western

Another Round (2020)

January 11, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Don’t you wish you could put that in glass and drink it?

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020, 2020s, alcohol, another round, denmark, druk, lars ranthe, life affirming, mads mikkelsen, magnus millang, oscar winner, review, thomas bo larsen, thomas vinterberg, tobias lindholm

C’mon C’mon (2021)

December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

About a boy

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2021, cmon cmon, drama, emotional, family, family relationships, gaby hoffmann, joaquin phoenix, mental illness, mike mills, review, soft, uncle, woody norman

The Driller Killer (1979)

December 14, 2021 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Drill, baby, drill

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1970s, 1979, abel ferrara, b film, crime, horror, madness, murder, new york city, punk, subculture, the driller killer

The Power of the Dog (2021)

December 9, 2021 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Bedeviled are the meek

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2021, benedict cumberbatch, cowboys, drama, jane campion, jesse plemons, kirsten dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, montana, new zealand, toxic masculinity, western

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