Knock at the Cabinis based on Paul G. Tremblay’s 2018 novelThe Cabin at the End of the World, which has (A) a better title and (B) an actual twist that’s been lost in the adaptation. And while the film sidles up to its religious imagery – four horsemen minus the horses,...
Knock at the Cabinplays like the religious crackpot movie America doesn’t need right now, suggesting that the mad prophets are right, their violent behavior is justified, and that we would all do well to listen to them—a scary notion, to be sure....
With its fresh take on the source material and unsettling visuals, this iteration of Children of the Corn provides a chilling exploration of the power of religious fanaticism and the horrors of childhood. Actors: Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey, Bruce Spence, Sebastian Al...
But Sincere grows weary of the criminal lifestyle and joins a black Muslim religious group. Buns, on the other hand, sinks deeper into criminality and faces serious prison time. The cops offer him a deal, however -- assassinate the head of the Muslim group, and he will go free. Release...
Meanwhile, she deals with her emotionally abusive mother, Ruth (Alicia Witt), who's very religious. The less you know about the plot of Longlegs beforehand, the better, because it's best watching it going in cold so that the beats land more strongly during its twists and turns. If ...
Coming off of the success of 2021’s Old, Knock at the Cabin marks Shyamalan’s return to one of the most understated yet prevailing themes of his work: religious terror and despair in the face of the unexplainable. The film follows a family (Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, and Kristen ...
Beni drops his gun and grabs at the CHAINS around his neck, 'RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS AND ICONS dangle from each chain. Beni holds the first one up: A CHRISTIAN CRUCIFIX. He quickly makes the sign of-the cross and blesses himself in English: BENI May the good Lord protect and watch over me ...
links television, cinema, cameras, Hollywood, animals and a spectacular eye in the sky. Like Tarantino’sOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood(2019), Joel Coen’sThe Tragedy of Macbeth(2021)and Martin Scorsese’s religious epics,Nope(2022), is what I consider to be a big-budget, arthouse ...
Cabin in the Sky: Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley. With Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong. A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up w
The religious convictions of my parents do not steal my capacity for joy; rather, having joy in the midst of such doctrine makes the joy felt evermore difficult. I want to tell them how I saw him recently and wanted a lingering hug. But I cannot. Like Davis, if I could be anywhere ...