Tag: Reviews
Documentary Review: Knock Down the House
The initials AOC have certainly trended on numerous occasions on Twitter over the last eighteen months or so. And even those of us not fully…
Documentary Review: The Great Hack
Pretty sure most of you are far more familiar with the Facebook data scandal a couple of years ago, than who or what Cambridge Analytica…
Film Review: The Very Last Day
Writer-Director Cédric Jouarie’s The Very Last Day is a captivating puzzle of a film. The first half of this Taiwanese film plays out like a…
Film Review: Doctor Sleep
It’s well documented that Stephen King did not care for Stanley Kubrick’s vision of his novel The Shining. As someone who loved the film, I…
Review: The Irishman (2019)
Never let it be said that Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker who does anything by half measures. The legendary director had been looking to adapt…
Film Review: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
The participation of Romania during World War II will likely go over the head of many. Depends what you’ve read. Or where you’re from. The…
Review: Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir (2019)
In the opening of The Souvenir, we are gifted some black and white footage of Sunderland, a northern English city, as Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne…
Full Coverage of Filmotomy’s Horrifically Huge ‘Film Road to Halloween’ Series
Welcome to November. That, of course, means we at Filmotomy will not be throttling you with Halloween-related film posts. That said, the range and amount…
Film Road to Halloween: The Horror Masterpiece that is The Exorcist (1973)
Often I wonder with a kind of disappointed enthusiasm, what it was like to actually be around to see some of cinema’s greatest motion pictures…
Film Road to Halloween: There’s No Film Quite Like Possession (1981)
Possession opens in West Berlin, the crosses implanted into the ground to commemorate the dead, and the dividing wall very much a part of the…
Film Road to Halloween: Angst (1983) Will Leave You Creepily Shaken And Stirred
As noted back when we did our Year in Film series last year, there’s a general feel about 1983. That the commercial film world took…
Film Road to Halloween: 10 Films from the last 5 years to Darken your Halloween
During the course of the lead up to Halloween, my Greek wife asks me many a time – is anyone covering this movie or that…
Film Road to Halloween: The Wolf Man (1941)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 1 day to…
Film Road to Halloween: The Uninvited (1944)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 1 day to…
