Leah

Leah

hearts, no hearts, and five-star ratings

Favorite films

  • Wild at Heart
  • Nowhere
  • Querelle
  • Hellbound: Hellraiser II

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  • AVP: Alien vs. Predator

  • Lucifer Rising

  • Cuckoo

  • Diary of a Country Priest

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  • The Zone of Interest

    The Zone of Interest

    what can i say? in some ways i just appreciate the offering: a two-hour space to reflect on past atrocities and modern day complicities, a rare film that refuses to over-narrativize such horrors or push too heavily on a singular rhetorical position, but instead, through suggestion and the slight distance granted by its main conceit, allows a more free-flowing yet informed meditation upon its subject matter. its clever trick (sequestering its horrors to the sonic realm) tests decades-old critical notions…

  • Cuckoo

    Cuckoo

    leans heavily on its imagery, form, and broad-stroke thematic approach, which IMO goes a long way with arthouse horror. a film about reproduction and gun violence that manages to say little that is definitive about either (complimentary). heavy reminiscence of alien which is to say its at its best when it lets its form speak, schafer delivering a capable sigourney traversing a psychic labyrinth and working her way free. its pitfalls are the moments it cedes to comedic relief and explication,…

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