The Nightingale (2018)
The Nightingale is a spare, brutal portrait of the realities of Australian colonialism: murder, genocide and rape.
The Nightingale is a spare, brutal portrait of the realities of Australian colonialism: murder, genocide and rape.
Elle, Paul Verhoeven’s latest, inserts trashy rape-revenge tropes into polite French melodrama with provocative results.
It’s difficult to find one redeeming quality in I Spit On Your Grave 2, sequel to the 2010 remake of the controversial, memorably-titled 1978 film. The original wasn’t a “good film,” but it did have a savage relentlessness to it that left an impact. The remake’s modifications to the original were limited to a grimier…