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Episode 114 – The Babadook

Posted October 6, 201900:55:18

Jennifer Kent, the writer and director of The Babadook (2014), crafted the story of an exhausted widowed mother and her demanding 6 year-old into a...

Episode 113 – Los Tallos Amargos

Posted September 23, 201900:49:38

Film noir simply doesn’t get darker than Fernando Ayala’s Los Tallos Amargos (1956). And when I say dark, I mean classical tragedy dark. Dostoevsky...

Episode 112 – Jaws

Posted September 8, 201901:03:41

Are you still afraid to go into the water? Does the specter of a killer shark still haunt you, 44 years after that monster first broke the water’s...

Episode 111 – Evolution

Posted August 25, 201900:52:17

Upon my first viewing of it, Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Evolution (2015) leapt to the top of the list of my favorite movies of this decade, perhaps...

Episode 110 – The Fits

Posted August 11, 201900:52:25

Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits (2015) doesn’t reveal all its secrets. We as viewers don’t know the origin of the mysterious fits that one-by-one...