Nicolas Winding Refn’s Neon Demon follows a well-worn path to its bloody conclusion, relying on an audience’s tolerance for empty female characters in order to see them murder each other as a career move. In this case, they are gorgeous models seething with jealousy over Elle Fanning’s sudden dominance of the fashion scene in Los […]
In its first scenes, this Korean occult-horror film sets up a familiar situation. Sergeant Jong-goo (Do Won Kwak), a cop in the village, is called in to investigate a murder. He is a devoted family man, married, with a young daughter, Hyo-jin (Kim Hwan-hee), he is devoted to. Jong-goo’s mother, watchful and protective, also […]
Two Spoilers: 1. The cute little dog gets killed. 2. First one cockroach, then……UGH!! Having gotten those out of the way, let me say that they are the only times I felt this invigorating film threw in the overused clichés of this genre. Australian Writer-director Jennifer Kent has a sure sense of pacing and […]
