I am pleased to announce that I am a judge for Bloodfest 2018. What is Bloodfest? Bloodfest is an International Kids Horror Film Festival. Films are judged by kids, teens, as well as Industry Professionals. There are 3 Categories • Individual Entry – Kids or Teens • School class Entry • Holiday Program Entry Bloodfest […]
Category Archives: Film Reviews
September
26
Mother! – Darren Aronofsky and the feminie real. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Mother! For me, the central question of Darren Aronofsky’s new film Mother! is how a man can get the position of women so right? It’s a depressing thing when you see a woman’s position portrayed with so much horrific accuracy, and yet it is a man ‘showing me,’ using a legitimizing consensus that eludes me as […]
December
06
Elle – The story of woman, such that it is. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
I’ve had some large scale personal projects this year that have prevented me from reviewing films. But there are a couple of 2016 film experiences I think are important, so I will address a few of them before the year is out. Elle (Please note! This review contains spoilers) Our first encounter with Michèle LeBlanc […]
December
05
Ghostbusters – Ten reasons the 2016 Ghostbusters is better than the 1984 original. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
I’ve had some large scale personal projects this year that have prevented me from reviewing films. But there are a couple of 2016 film experiences I think are important, so I will address a few of them before the year is out. Ghostbusters Initially I was just going to ignore the hate around the 2016 […]
May
28
The Nice Guys – touching on tough subjects without comment. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
The Nice Guys The complex notion of the teen age girl as seen through the eyes of men remains predictably unresolved in Shane Blacks The Nice Guys. The opening scenes reveal a teenage boy coming to terms with females and as expected its through a sexual context. The Nice Guys is set in nineteen seventy-seven, […]
May
25
The Lobster – Yorgos Lanthimos beats us to death with his laboured philosophy again. (Film review)
posted by lisathatcher
Note: I first wrote this review in October 25, 2015. If you’re at all familiar with Yorgos Lanthimos’ previous works, then disappointingly, you don’t have to see The Lobster. He needs a new set of friends, or a new set of books or something, because the tiresomely dull philosophy at the core of The Lobster […]
March
22
A Bigger Splash -What’s below the surface can remain buried. (Film review)
posted by lisathatcher
A Bigger Splash The nymphete swanning about her mother or father’s house in bikinis is a creature that never existed except in the minds of unpleasant males who chose to interpret a person before them in the most superficial manner. No teen girl, no matter how she pretends at social courage is confidently seducing much older […]
December
28
Suffragette – The overdue narrative of a female war. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
Of all the complex and contradictory feelings I had as I was watching Suffragette, the most interesting was the revelation that the story was long overdue. I’m not the only female critic who had this experience. I’ve read of two others who experienced being bludgeoned with the observation that the story was late, and the […]
December
16
Star Wars: The force Awakens – Looks like we might have a female Jedi. (Film review)
posted by lisathatcher
Please note – there are no spoilers in this review. However, it contains a comparison between one aspect of the latest film with the first Star Wars that may be construed as a spoiler in some circumstances. Consider yourself warned. It’s almost as impossible to ignore Star Wars: The Force Awakens as it is to […]
December
07
Truth – Truth and bias and the old journalism. (Film Review)
posted by lisathatcher
It is no casual thing that James Vanderbilt’s Truth casts Robert Redford as Dan Rather in its depiction of the death of the values associated with journalistic integrity. Bob Woodward himself playing the man that “was there when the news became profitable” is the ultimate symbol of the death of investigative journalism. Robert Redford played […]
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