Rhee Dolly, played by Jennifer Lawrence, is seventeen. She lives with her twelve year old brother and six year old sister in a log cabin in the Ozark Mountains, in Missouri. She also cares for her mother, who suffers from some undisclosed mental illness which has rendered her catatonic. Her father, Jessop Dolly, a renowned local meth cook, has skipped bail. As a result, the law has foreclosed on their property and her family’s already meagre resources are stretched to breaking point. Necessity means she has to either find her father and convince him to turn himself in, or turn up his corpse which will release her family from having to pay his debt. Her quest takes us on a journey through the demography of a little-seen part of the U.S. Continue reading
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Winter's Bone
Posted in Film with tags Eisenstein, Elizabeth Duse, Winter's Bone on December 4, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
Eli Roth – Feminist Warrior?!
Posted in Film with tags Eli Roth, Feminism, The Last Exorcism on December 4, 2010 by Jarrod BoyleThe Last Exorcism
Posted in Film with tags Daniel Stamm, Eli Roth, The Blair Witch Project, The Exorcist on December 3, 2010 by Jarrod BoyleWhen I saw the preview for this one, I thought it was another instalment in the hopelessly retreaded Exorcist series. Everybody knows the first film with Linda Blair and Max Von Sydow as possibly the most scary horror film of all time. The sequels have progressively destroyed the credibility of the premise to the point that no one else has dared go near it for fear of being infected by the terminal crapness. Continue reading
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Intolerable Material Part 2
Posted in Film on October 1, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle
I seem to have this subject on the brain; it may have something to do with a series of particularly shocking cinematic episodes I have undergone in the last few months. I think it was kicked off when a friend of mine loaned me the Takeshi Miike film, Audition. Continue reading
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Intolerable Material Part 1
Posted in Film with tags Gaspar Noe, Irreversible, Jim Thompson, Michael Winterbottom, Salo, Straw Dogs, Vincent Cassel on September 17, 2010 by Jarrod Boyle![The Killer Inside Me [DVD]](https://i0.wp.com/img.hotmoviesale.com/dvds/MPI-DIFC9757D/1/The-Killer-Inside-Me.jpg)
I went and saw the film The Killer Inside Me’ during the week. It had received a very good review in The Age and, being one of those people who struggles to make up his own mind, I took that as a good enough reason to go see the film. I think I was also curious about the fact that it was an ‘old’ novel; set in the USA of the nineteen-fifties. It’s not often you a see a period-piece of this nature. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 