Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, an absorbing ghost story from 1898, has been made into great films before. In fact, the Jack Clayton-directed 1961 horror classic, The Innocents, starring Deborah Kerr, remains a definitive and terrifying adaptation. Another great movie that was inspired by The Turn of the Screw (though it’s not an official adaptation) is Alejandro Amenabar’s … [Read more...] about ‘The Turning’ New Movie Review: The scariest thing is the wardrobe
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‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ New Movie Review: James Cameron, the Governator, and Sarah Connor are back!
At the start of Terminator: Dark Fate, old and new come crashing together. The former comes in familiar doses of clips, both vintage (we once again get Linda Hamilton’s terrifying monologue about the end of the world) and reconfigured (a beach provides a Normandy-like robot invasion). The latter is served in a startling introductory scene, in which everything the main … [Read more...] about ‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ New Movie Review: James Cameron, the Governator, and Sarah Connor are back!
TULLY New Movie Review
The early scenes of Jason Reitman's Tully are so convincing that they will create anxiety for the new parents in the audience. We observe Marlo (played by Charlize Theron) struggling to raise her troubled son, give attention to her older daughter, survive the final months of her third pregnancy and please Drew, her barely-there husband (played by Ron Livingston). There's a … [Read more...] about TULLY New Movie Review