arthitshard

arthitshard

Screenwriter, Thinker, Film Enthusiast

Favorite films

  • Unbreakable
  • Inception
  • Stalker
  • Blood Simple

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  • Nosferatu

    ★★★★★

  • The Witch

    ★★★★★

  • Juror #2

    ★★★★½

  • Cure

    ★★★★★

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  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★★★★★

    Doing remakes is not easy, especially when you want to make a film that’s good. There are lots of remakes that are not, unfortunately, even close to being good. However, that’s not the case when it comes to director Robert Eggers, whose latest venture into the dark world of 1838 Germany took the form of a film called Nosferatu.

    What fascinates me about Eggers is the amount of research he does in order to make sure he’s making a film…

  • The Witch

    The Witch

    ★★★★★

    I missed Robert Eggers' The Witch in theaters when it first came out in 2015, primarily owing to shoddy promotion. While the trailers are artistically designed, they still give me the impression that the film was frenetic in nature, and this is because the studio wanted to sell the film as your average horror film with cheap jump scares and gore so that younger audiences could force their parents to give them their evening pocket money so that they could…

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  • Prey

    Prey

    ½

    The Predator franchise, unfortunately, has been butchered for a long time, starting with the sequel back in 1990. However, the studios are still continuing the process of shredding its legacy into pieces in the name of prequels, remakes, and money. What's tiresome is that all the attempts have miserably failed.

    Prey, directed by Dan Tranchtenberg, comes from the director behind the magnificent 10 Cloverfield Lane. You can sense Tranchtenberg's devotion as an artist and his passion for making films with…

  • Emancipation

    Emancipation

    ½

    Emancipation is dreadful, boring, insulting, and the ego is so obvious that it makes the film also calamitous, unfortunate, and inauspicious. I say unfortunate, for if it was in the hands of the right people, this could have been a great film. The subject matter is compelling, and it's a story that must be told despite the fact that Hollywood has milked the slavery genre so much that it has dried out.