Friday, 11 June 2021
New online film magazine: Animus Magazine
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From their about section:
Animus is an online film magazine based in London, UK, and turned towards the future. New issues are published monthly, each featuring six essays guaranteed to cut through the noise and be worth your time, published all at once for you to read at your leisure.
On our Patreon, we publish articles reacting to the news and to the conversations animating the film world, as well as interviews and other extras.
Current contributors are:
Elena Lazic, Sophie Monks Kaufman, Charles Bramesco, Manuela Lazic, Paul Ridd,
Thursday, 10 June 2021
Jennifer's Body (2009)
A newly possessed high school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates.
A horror film wrapped up in a feminist message works both ways as genre movie and as political statement, but some male audiences might not notice.
Maltin**: "Attempt to layer horror-movie tropes onto a story of female friendship (and the roles young women inhabit) doesn't work. Written by Diablo Cody, but this teenage outsider isn't as easy to embrace as the heroine of JUNO."
Welcome to Marwen (2018)
A victim of a brutal attack finds a unique and beautiful therapeutic outlet to help him through his recovery process.
Well-intentioned and heartfelt drama based on a true story presents some great special effects and godd performances by Carrell and Mann, but there's an unbalance between its fantasy and reality segments, so that the real-life scenes seem more artificial than the imagined ones.
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
In the Middle of the River (2018)
A wounded military veteran returns home to face the war within his own dysfunctional family, as he tries to piece together the reasons behind his sister's mysterious death.
Feverish, fast-paced Semi-Western drama follows a complex and multi-layered story, but in its dizzying realism it rather gives an accurate study of life and issues in a Native American community.
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