The Substance is the second film from French director Coralie Fargeat. What she provided is the most stomach-churning film of 2024. Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is a former movie star who has fallen on hard times. She’s 50 and seen as too old to front a breakfast TV aerobics show. When Elisabeth is at a […]
Tag: dark comedy
Poor Things Review
Poor Things sees three major players from The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos, Tony McNamara, and Emma Stone return for an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) is a brilliant surgeon who conducts amoral experiments at home. One of his experiments is Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a woman with the mind of a child. Godwin hires […]
Damsel Review
Damsel is an indie Western that gives the genre a feminist twist. Samuel Alabaster (Robert Pattinson) arrives on American Frontier with the intent to propose and marry his sweetheart, Penelope (Mia Wasikowska). Samuel hires the local priest, Parson Henry (David Zellner) to travel into the wilderness to surprise Penelope. But Samuel reveals that Penelope had […]
Cold Pursuit Review
Liam Neeson has become synonymous with the thriller genre and his 2019 offering is a remake of a Norwegian dark-comedy. Nelson “Nels” Coxman (Neeson) is a snowplow driver for the ski resort town of Kehoe. His life is shattered when his son (Micheál Richardson) dies of a heroin overdose. Refusing to believe his son was a […]