A few weeks before this film was released,Michael Cainestarred in “A Shock To The System,” a movie that did have the courage of its dark convictions and followed them through to the end. Now there is a movie that has never asked itself this basic question: Why would the kind of peop...
The British black comedy lives--in suburban New York. “A Shock to the System” (selected theaters) has the same offbeat charm as the classic Alec Guinness comedies from the ‘50s. And, like those films, it stars a consummate professional at the peak of his comedic flair. As Graham Mars...
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The story has the ability to shock, and make you laugh, disturb, and – ultimately – bring a tear to the eye. — S.H. 4. The Life of Chuck (2025) Credit: TIFF First, he delivered the kinky terror of Gerald's Game, then the child-slaughtering horror of Doctor Sleep. For his ...
Buster´s Bedroom, Rebecca Horn, Copyright 1990 NR O'Connor (Donald Sutherland) is a doctor, and a female jounalist visits him. He wants to show her his special methods. So he put her in to a straitjacket. The scene takes some minutes, and shows how she is put into the jacket and...
Too darn cheesy for me. There is almost a good 30-minute stretch of the movie that is actually super fun to watch but then you have to go back to the bad plotlines, contrived side arcs, and the annoying thing where the characters become dinosaur whisperers and hypnotize everything by simp...
Not being that well versed in films coming from the country, I was fairly blown away and left in a kiln-fired state of deep shock by James Ashcroft’s Coming Home In The Dark, a vicious, unrelenting captivity thriller that wields a smouldering philosophical ember beneath a slick smokescreen...
Golding’s novel is the sort of fable that could shock only those who believe in the onwardness of civilization, as some still did in those days. At the time of its publication (1954) attempts were made to find political messages in it, but today it seems more like a sad prophecy of...