Saddened by his passing, I recently watched Bill Paxton's Frailty, a reasonably well constructed slice of horror that failed to resonate with me. Paxton the director lets Paxton the actor do a full-on Jack Torrance, even running around with a bloody axe. He does get a focused and spookily restrained performance by Matthew McConaughey; one of his best. The role of a suspicious cop fits Powers Boothe like an old show. Frailty doesn't add up to much, but there are loads worse 90 minute horror films. (4/5/17)
-
Misa Shimizu and Kōji Yakusho Shohei Imamura's Warm Water Under A Red Bridge , his final feature film from 2001, is an odd and affecti... -
Tye Sheridan Christopher Landon's Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse sank without a trace commercially and was generally reviled cri... -
Elle Fanning Francis Ford Coppola's B'twixt Now and Sunrise is an unsuccessful horror film which Coppola has been tinkering with fo... -
Ilinca Manolache Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World is another impressive feature from the Romanian director.... -
Robert Young and Hedy Lamarr King Vidor's H. M. Pulham Esq. , from 1941, is a good, if not especially memorable condensation of John P...
No comments:
Post a Comment