Crime writer Ellison (Ethan Hawke) walks around in a cardigan. That’s a crime in itself, if only of the fashion variety. Sinister is a mostly commendable supernatural horror, comparable to The Shining in that a writer and his family move out into the wilderness and the scribe lets his psyche get the better of him. When we meet Ellison, he’s moving intoContinue reading “Sinister”
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The Tall Man
Call it Pascal’s wager. Would the goodwill French director Pascal Laugie built up with his stupendous achievement Martyrs propel the follow up, The Tall Man? It’s nearly impossible not to think about Martyrs while watching this one, nearly as much as it is to banish thoughts of the first two Godfathers in the endurance test that isContinue reading “The Tall Man”