Top Ten Scream Queens: Barbara Steele, who both emitted screams and made others do same, is in a category of her own. Top Ten Scream Queens Halloween is over until next year, but the equally bewitching Day of the Dead is just around the corner. So, dead or alive, here's my revised and expanded list of cinema's Top Ten Scream Queens. This highly personal compilation is based on how memorable – as opposed to how loud or how frequent – were the screams. That's the key reason you won't find listed below actresses featured in gory slasher films. After all, the screams – and just about everything else in such movies – are as meaningless as their plots. You also won't find any screaming guys (i.e., Scream Kings) on the list below even though I've got absolutely nothing against guys who scream in horror, whether in movies or in life. There are...
- 11/2/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Ever since Nikita season 3 left the Dirty Thirty behind and shifted the focus to Amanda's mission, it has been a non-stop, unpredictable emotional ride.
On "Broken Home," Division imploded from the mutiny, while the captive Nikita learned about Amanda's past through mind manipulation. Both were intense situations that ended in shocking and unexpected ways. While one happened in the past and the other in the present, both have far-reaching consequences.
Amanda's mission to get Nikita this season has been confusing at times, but that fits with her character. What is it that Amanda really wants? She says that she wants to teach both Nikita and Alex lessons, but it's becoming more clear that Amanda doesn't necessarily know her end game. At this point of her plan, she wanted Nikita to learn the truth about her past and a tragic one it was.
"You can't save everyone." was the theme of...
On "Broken Home," Division imploded from the mutiny, while the captive Nikita learned about Amanda's past through mind manipulation. Both were intense situations that ended in shocking and unexpected ways. While one happened in the past and the other in the present, both have far-reaching consequences.
Amanda's mission to get Nikita this season has been confusing at times, but that fits with her character. What is it that Amanda really wants? She says that she wants to teach both Nikita and Alex lessons, but it's becoming more clear that Amanda doesn't necessarily know her end game. At this point of her plan, she wanted Nikita to learn the truth about her past and a tragic one it was.
"You can't save everyone." was the theme of...
- 4/21/2013
- by carla@tvfanatic.com (Carla Day)
- TVfanatic
Cortes’ Latest is a Discordant Rhythm of its Own.
Following up on his excellent 2010 thriller, Buried, director Rodrigo Cortes unveiled his next feature, an elliptical convulsion sporting considerable star power, Red Lights. Cortes’ latest reveals itself to be impressively ambitious, but depending on your expectations, could either delight or disappoint. Either way, this brave undertaking is surely not aimed at the masses, and may be destined to be a cult title in an otherwise worn thin genre.
We’re first introduced to Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver), a college professor, and her assistant, Dr. Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy), a physicist, both traveling the country debunking paranormal activity. While the film sets up their dynamic, they include a new protégé in their investigative forces, a young student (Elizabeth Olsen), concurrently pursuing a romance with Buckley. In the midst of their debunking, a mysterious and legendary blind psychic, Simon Silver (Robert De Niro...
Following up on his excellent 2010 thriller, Buried, director Rodrigo Cortes unveiled his next feature, an elliptical convulsion sporting considerable star power, Red Lights. Cortes’ latest reveals itself to be impressively ambitious, but depending on your expectations, could either delight or disappoint. Either way, this brave undertaking is surely not aimed at the masses, and may be destined to be a cult title in an otherwise worn thin genre.
We’re first introduced to Dr. Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver), a college professor, and her assistant, Dr. Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy), a physicist, both traveling the country debunking paranormal activity. While the film sets up their dynamic, they include a new protégé in their investigative forces, a young student (Elizabeth Olsen), concurrently pursuing a romance with Buckley. In the midst of their debunking, a mysterious and legendary blind psychic, Simon Silver (Robert De Niro...
- 7/9/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Red Lights Click here to read the review! "Recalling films like the 1935 Claude Rains’ starrer, The Clairvoyant or the underrated Séance On A Wet Afternoon, (and, strangely, maybe even a bit of De Palma’s The Fury, if only a Bernard Herrmann score could have accompanied the film), Cortes gives us an excessive amount of window dressing in its first half, only to pull the rug on us with one indefatigably head scratching conclusion. And this is what will either determine your reading of the film as convoluted or harebrained brilliant."...
- 1/22/2012
- IONCINEMA.com
"Meretricious agents of the Kaiser were stationed at such places as Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner. In this black book of sin details were given of the unnatural defloration of children...wives of men in supreme positions were entangled. In Lesbian ecstasy the most sacred secrets of the state were threatened."
The above quote, from Wikipedia by way of Philip Hoare's Oscar Wilde's Last Stand, refers to the bizarre obsessions of one Noel Pemberton Billing, aviator, inventor, member of parliament, and author-producer of High Treason, Britain's answer to Metropolis.
Npb was a queer duck: a passionate, pathological homophobe, as well as a champion of victory through airpower, as well as something of a feminist and peacemonger, going by this movie. A weird set of qualities to find in one personality.
"He founded a journal, Imperialist, in which he wrote an article based on information provided by Harold...
The above quote, from Wikipedia by way of Philip Hoare's Oscar Wilde's Last Stand, refers to the bizarre obsessions of one Noel Pemberton Billing, aviator, inventor, member of parliament, and author-producer of High Treason, Britain's answer to Metropolis.
Npb was a queer duck: a passionate, pathological homophobe, as well as a champion of victory through airpower, as well as something of a feminist and peacemonger, going by this movie. A weird set of qualities to find in one personality.
"He founded a journal, Imperialist, in which he wrote an article based on information provided by Harold...
- 4/18/2011
- MUBI
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