Kissed (1996)
Mar 17, 1999Necrophilia
Controversially charged Canadian film in which Molly Parker plays a mortuary assistant who develops an obsession with having sex with corpses. Played with more taste than synopsis would lead you to think
Molly Parker
The Wicker Man (2006)
Nov 18, 2007Pagan Religion
The 1973 version of The Wicker Man is a cult classic; this is one of the worst remakes of all time that gets nothing about the original right, blunts its themes about religion and tosses in crude shocks and killings
Hollywoodland (2006)
Feb 26, 2007The Death of TV Superman George Reeves/True Crime
A film based around the suicide of tv's Superman George Reeves, questioning whether it was a murder. The details are discussed in depth without ever arriving at a solution, while the casting adds up to an absorbing mystery
The Road (2009)
Nov 30, 2009Grim Post-Holocaust Survivalism
The extraordinary poetry of Cormac McCarthy's novel about a man trying to retain his humanity amid the harsh struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world is necessarily weakened in being translated to screen but the film still does a fine job of capturing the essence of the book
Darwin (2016)
Oct 19, 2016Dystopian Internet-Addicted Future
This imagines a future where people have become so absorbed in online communication that they live in isolated cubicles. An interesting idea that the film does zero to make believable
1922 (2017)
Nov 12, 2017Stephen King Adaptation/Rural Murder Plot
A Stephen King adaptation, this is less the jumpshocks of It than a work of dark brooding psychology as a farmer contemplates the murder of his wife. Think Days of Heaven by way of Grant Wood's American Gothic
Peter Pan and Wendy (2023)
May 5, 2023Disney Remake/Children’s Adventures in a Magic Land
Disney conduct a live-action remake of their Peter Pan and promisingly place it in the hands of David Lowery, director of A Ghost Story and The Green Knight