‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ is a deeply unsettling story of responsibility and absurd fable-like fate, as heart-surgeon Steven Murphy’s hollow life of surface riches is disturbed by fatherless teen Martin, and a strange relationship unfolds - culminating in a surreal mess of open-hearted horror. Here, Yorgos Lanthimos lays a body of dead-pan humour on a bed of chilling darkness so successfully that it’s difficult to imagine such disparate elements existing separately, and Barry Keoghan’s effortless exploration of the strange tension between crippling awkwardness and unhinged power that’s exclusive to youth - delivering an unparalleled cold-blooded performance, only serves to emphasise the film’s bizarre language.
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GoodFellas 1990
Myth-busting and fiercely intelligent, ‘Goodfellas’ follows the real-life story of Henry Hill, who was adopted by a group of gangsters at a young age, and advances through the ranks of the illegitimate underworld to become one of the most successful American criminals that ever was. Not only does the film offer an ugly, depraved and unsanitized insight into the rise and fall of a New York mobster, but thanks to Martin Scorsese’s dynamic, all-embracing approach that spends as much time…
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Green Room 2015
‘Green Room’ is a swift, high-tension anxiety-trip that follows the unconventional story of naive punk band The Ain’t Rights, who are coaxed into playing a questionable show in the middle-of-nowhere, stumble upon a gruesome murder scene back-stage, and struggle to negotiate their way out of the messy situation now that their title of ‘musos’ has been traded for ‘witnesses’. Here, Jeremy Saulnier continues to demonstrate his sharp sense of craft and keen ability to inject new-life into tired ideas, and although constrained by a low budget, does so with one hand tied behind his back.
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The Others 2001
‘The Others’ is the story of a devoutly religious mother-of-two who moves her children to an isolated, fog-flanked mansion amidst the fallout of World War II in-order to safely await her Husband’s return from the frontlines. Servants are invited into their darkness-shrouded home to help maintain the grounds, but regardless of the new dynamics that such characters bring, there’s a looming, unknown presence that becomes difficult for them to ignore. Mood can be thicker than plot, but if the layers…
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