Movie Review: DARLING – Everything works in Mickey Keating’s best movie to date, with a terrific lead performance by Lauren Ashley Carter

Darling

I’m not exactly sure which came first of Mickey Keating’s Carnage Park and Darling, but I know they were filmed fairly close together, and are wildly different from each other.  It’s fair to speculate that while Keating’s still finding his feet, he has the potential to become a “name” director in a few years.

Continue reading “Movie Review: DARLING – Everything works in Mickey Keating’s best movie to date, with a terrific lead performance by Lauren Ashley Carter”

Movie Review: WE ARE STILL HERE

We Are

There’s a lot to like about writer/director Ted Geoghegan’s We Are Still Here, but it’s a mixed bag at the end of the day.  Having gotten wind of it through some internet buzz, I rolled the dice, and I mostly came out ahead.

Continue reading “Movie Review: WE ARE STILL HERE”

Movie Review: THE HOUSE ON PINE STREET

House in Pine Street

I admit, I gave up watching Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England about half an hour in (I’ll return to it, though), but because I still wanted to watch a movie, I went with The House On Pine Street, a 2015 independent horror movie summarized as “a woman with an unwanted pregnancy moves into a haunted house”.  Seemed pretty decent from that brief logline.  And that’s pretty much how I would rate it. Continue reading “Movie Review: THE HOUSE ON PINE STREET”