Everybody Knows.

Everybody knows that you love me baby Everybody knows that you really do And everybody knows that you’ve been faithful Give or take a night or two Everybody knows it’s coming apart Take one last look at this sacred heart Before it blows Everybody knows.  (L. Cohen 1988 – gives a pretty prescient review!) Everybody…

Border

Bay Bee Troll Do  Do  Do Do  Do Do.    Baby Troll Do  Do  Do Do  Do Do.    Baby Troll Do  Do  Do Do  Do Do.    Bay. Bee. Troll. (With apologies to Baby Shark!) This Swedish/Danish production of a modern Folk Tale based on a short story by John Ajuide Lindqvist  (Let The…

Us

Much like last year’s sensational Get Out, Jordan Peele stretches the boundaries of horror to deliver a complex contemplation of modern America with a few dark jokes thrown in for good measure. My first impression was that it doesn’t quite hit the same heights as his previous Oscar winner. The balance between slow, careful, eerie…

The Aftermath

I had a bit of a sinking feeling about this from the opening shot. A black screen is illuminated by bomb bursts which traverse from left to right. It creates an abstract aerial picture which is further distanced by a muffled sound track. This was supposed to represent the carpet bombing of Hamburg in dog…

Capernaum

I was astonished to read during the end credits, just how much advice and assistance director Nadine Labaki received, from so many departments of the Lebanese state, during the making of her film. Because for most of its lengthy running time we were presented with such an appalling picture of life in contemporary Beirut that…