#killer films

[rickchung]

May December (dir. Todd Haynes) x WFF 2023.

There's a deeply sincere quality to the dryly comical knowingness of May December's detached psychological humour. Scripted by screenwriter Samy Burch, the self-conscious film revels in its cattiness. It's often truly uncomfortable how the various characters toy and play with each other's emotions as Brazillian composer Marcelo Zarvos' delightfully overwrought musical score dials up the sense of high tension. It's an intoxicating ride questioning emotionally predatory behaviour at every turn.

[bkenber]

'A Good Person' Movie and Blu-ray Review

The following review was written by Ultimate Rabbit correspondent, Tony Farinella. I’m an emotional, sensitive and empathic person, and I tend to seek out films which will make me think, move me to tears and tell a narrative that resonates with me.  However, I have a good barometer for films that are trying too hard to tug at my heart strings and doing just a little too much to get an emotional…

[mycinematheque]

"A thrillingly delirious film about Shirley Jackson's poisoned writing process (...) [Josephine Decker is] one of the most feral, elastic, and vividly singular artists of contemporary American cinema" David Ehrlich: IndieWire

[jontheblogcentric]

2023 Oscars Best Picture Review: Past Lives

Teo Yoo and Great Lee star as two childhood sweethearts who could be destined to be for each other after all these years in Past Lives. Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe in reincarnation? Past Lives is a story that examines it and how it pertains to love. Reincarnation and a person’s belief they had a past life or many past lives is a topic popular with many. It’s also a topic of great…

[zanephillips]

Matthew McConaughey as Joe Cooper Killer Joe (2011)

[starfall-xo]

2024 Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees as VHS tapes by @ShawnMansfield

[sinnaminns]

Loved getting to see Amanda in the newest movie again!!

also booping the snoot of all the pig players rn 🐽❣️

[jackmustcry]

Adam and Lawrence as Jack and Wendy Torrance

[lgblackfeet]

Lily Gladstone and Eva Green attend the premier of Kinds of Kindness, Cannes Film Festival, day 4.

[rickchung]

Past Lives (dir. Celine Song) x LAAPFF 2023.

Song’s transcendent semi-autobiographical debut feature[,] inspired by her own experiences immigrating from Seoul to Toronto before settling in New York City, stars Greta Lee and Teo Yoo as childhood sweethearts, Na Young (Nora) and Hae Sung, who reunite as adults and contemplate their diverging directions in life and love. It’s a stunning film about possibilities and reconciling your choices.

Screened at the 2023 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

[scott-summers]

axe murder is something that can be so special

[horrorwomensource]

Kiernan Shipka as Jamie Hughes • Totally Killer (2023) dir. Nahnatchka Khan

[seasonofhorror]

CHILD'S PLAY

1988, dir. Tom Holland

[k-wame]

Jacob Elordi as Bobby Falls He Went That Way (2023) dir. Jeffrey Darling

[voteforspoon]

The irony of Killers of the Flower Moon telling the story of how the Osage people were ignored despite the insane amount of corruption and tragedy they went through because it just wasn’t a big enough deal. Now the movie gets ignored and doesn’t win a single Oscar, getting snubbed for best adapted screenplay nominations and Lily Gladstone giving a beautiful performance of a tragic story, losing to Emma Stone, who for the record is an incredible actress, who plays a literal child in an adults body who finds “sexual liberation,” which is an incredibly gross story, but is more sensational than the murders of the Osage people and therefore it can win an Oscar everyone thought Gladstone had in the bag. The way history repeats itself, with the tragic story of the Osage people being ignored again and again because it just wasn’t a big enough deal to matter frankly pisses me off.

[sinnaminns]

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