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MAD November 4, 2019 Scream Factory Resurrects Loved One With “Elizabeth Harvest”

Elizabeth Harvest is a science fiction reimagining of the French folktale of Bluebeard, in which a violent nobleman in the […]

MAD October 29, 2019 Violent revenge gets unleashed during the Irish famine in “Black ’47”

Mud and misery are the backdrops of the pulpy, period revenge drama Black ’47. Set in Ireland during the potato […]

MAD October 26, 2019 “Ophelia” Review: Here’s That Awful ‘Hamlet’ Fanfiction No One Asked For

There’s a sequence at the end of Ophelia — and don’t worry, insomuch as it’s possible to spoil the end […]

MAD October 26, 2019 “Charlie Says” Explores the Deprogramming of the Manson Women

Between this and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, May 2019 is already a banner month for films unpacking the […]

MAD October 18, 2019 “Wildlife” Review: A Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Don’t miss the blaze that Carey Mulligan ignites in Wildlife. The British actress gives her considerable all to the role […]

MAD October 15, 2019 “Red Joan” Review: Not Enough Drama, or Enough Judi Dench, in British Spy Story

Our first shot of Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) in “Red Joan” is inauspicious enough. A librarian in a cozy cardigan. […]

MAD October 14, 2019 The Nightingale (2018): An Uncompromising Examination Of The Evils Of Colonialism

The lone woman in competition here at the Venice Film Festival. Jennifer Kent brings her Tasmanian gothic tale The Nightingale […]

MAD October 3, 2019 “The House that Jack Built” by Lars von Trier: The demiurge and its annoyances

Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier signs his serial-killer film that is “The House that Jack Built”, a disguised autobiography, confusing […]