Baskin delivers to it's audience a vision of hell that'll probably stay with whoever watches it for a while - visually inspired by the most evocative and surreal of artists - Caravaggio, Hieronymus Bosch and H.R. Giger. The unlikely group of inauspicious protagonists who end up there are a team of Turkish police officers - boss Remzi (Ergun Kuyucu), Arda (Gorkem Kasal) - who has been plagued by strange dreams, Yavuz (Muharrem Bayrak), Apo (Fatih Dokgöz), and Seyfi (Sabahattin Yakut).…
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The North Water 2021
Those who watch The North Water should be prepared to be absolutely wowed by another knock-out, superlative performance from Colin Farrell - another one where he gained a significant amount of weight for his role, that of chief harpooner Henry Drax. The protagonist of this mini-series is surgeon Patrick Sumner (Jack O'Connell), who joins the crew of the whaling ship Volunteer under the cloud of his dismissal in disgrace from military service in India and a severe addiction to Laudanum.…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Well, this movie is sure going to be discussed a lot over the coming years, so I don't feel the need to note every feeling I had watching it - but what also makes my job easier is the fact that it felt virtually perfect. It's not hurt by it's 206-minute running time, and works at a steady pace after rapidly getting us up to speed on the Osage Nation during the 1920s - rich Indians preyed upon by the…
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The Blackcoat's Daughter 2015
You can think of The Blackcoat's Daughter as a bit like if an Ari Aster-type horror filmmaker (ie - Osgood Perkins) were to make his own twisted version of The Holdovers. A sense of dark foreboding looms like an impending nightmare over it's duration. Two students at a prestigious prep school, Bramford Academy, are left in the wake of a general exodus during a week-long break. Rose (Lucy Boynton) fears she might be pregnant, and misrepresents the date her parents…
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