Martin McDonagh’s latest film, “The Banshees of Inisherin“, represents a departure for him, as well as his fans. It is more personal, and darker, than anything of his I’ve seen before. And, inevitably, it influences our memory of his previous work. Still, he is as nimble as ever. The darkness creeps in slowly, but all […]
This Yorgos Lanthimos film, which he wrote with Ethymis Filippo, was released in 2017, but I only got around to seeing it some weeks ago. The title, “The Killing of a SacredDeer”, is never explained in the film, and only further research revealed that it was a modern retelling of the Iphigenia myth. Although I […]
“The Green Knight”, an adaptation of the anonymous Arthurian romance, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, should be characterized in the genre of “interesting failure”, although, giving credit, the “interesting” part didn’t kick in until after the film was over. Watching it, at least for most of the second half, was a snooze. To be […]
