Ever since it was announced, The Lighthouse has intrigued me. Not because the trailers were well made (they were) or because I enjoy watching Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe act (I do). No, I was most interested to see if director Robert Eggers could successfully follow his powerful debut, The Witch (2015). Well slap me down and cast me into Davey Jones’ locker – The Lighthouse delivers on all fronts and absolutely floored me.
Set on a desolate New England…
Rian Johnson has done it again. Knives Out is a cunning, intelligent and hilarious whodunit lifted even higher into the stratosphere by a phenomenal ensemble cast. As he has shown before, Johnson is a master of subverting expectations and delivering a fun romp while doing so. Knives Out borrows from Hitchcock, the Coen brothers and even Kurosawa’s Rashomon all the while delivering a wholly unique experience. It’s a hell of a ride and best experienced with no plot spoilers so…
If I'm going to watch a James Mangold-directed, music biopic that features Johnny Cash, I'm watching Walk the Line and it's not even a close call.
Like one of those Universal Studios movie rides but way more beautiful and sad.
A slowburn that's as vicious as it is patient. More of this, please.
Michael may return but the artistic juice that made the original so incredible is long gone unfortunately. Here we have a pretty standard (and competent!) 80s slasher film that just happens to feature Michael Myers.
