Really Awful Movies

Red Eye

Like Jack Torrance in The Shining, this Jack (OK, Jackson) is manifestly nuts, pre-going nuts in Red Eye. Cillian Murphy plays the sinister Jackson Rippner, obviously up to no good from the get-go, part of a team of hit-men going after the US Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security in South Florida. And Rippner needs to lean on high-levelContinue reading “Red Eye”

Subterranea

Mistaking appearance for reality is the premise behind Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, where prisoners shrouded in darkness, perceive nightly flickering shadowy puppetry on a wall as the real world. In Subterranea, a Man with No Name is raised from boyhood to an adult in pitch black, his only contact to the outside through aContinue reading “Subterranea”