An absurd comic dream horror scrambled egg? 

The trailer looked sufficiently interesting to take a chance on and do I did. I’m not a Nick Cage fan but I decided to grant an exception. Hmm. 

This movie is intriguing and an engaging 100 minutes, but, the invested interest comes apart. I gave it the benefit of the doubt and what I found myself interested enough to figure out as a detective became a hot unresolved mess. Just the kind of…

Devastating and terrifying. 

Hard to know where to begin but this film was creepy and scary from the opening credits and that continued through to the final credits. I believe films and plays should strive to transport the audience into the world of the story as soon as possible and hold you there throughout. Hard to say that I admire that this film did that when it was such a nightmare. 

The film got an Oscar nod for sound and…

This movie irritated me. 
First of all, I regard writer/director projects with a measure of earned suspicion on the writer’s side. It’s never the case that a director has a blank check on a project that hasn’t been written. No producer hires a director and says -do whatever you want, we don’t have a script to which the director says aha, I’ve always wanted to write a screenplay, here’s my chance. Instead, it’s always a writer who wants creative control…

This is a gentle, slowly unfolding romance movie. It is full of longing without being full of regret. It is achy without being heartbreaky. It ends just as it should. There are no surprises and few plot turns. The movie is something like sitting on a riverbank for two hours and watching the current closely. Without focusing on anything else, a gentle current transforms into something dynamic and alive.  
As a kid, I heard my mother tell the tale,…