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3 weeks ago | filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor

Wri/Dir: Joel Souza | Cast: Alec Baldwin, Patrick Scott McDermott, Travis Fimmel Frances Fisher, Jake Busey, Josh Hopkins. | US 139’There’s a morbid fascination to see this Kansas-set neo Western that turned into a terrible tragedy three years ago when the cinematographer was accidentally killed by the main star of the feature that feels loosely like The Good the Bad and the Ugly with its three cornered storyline.

3 weeks ago | filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor

Dir: George Waggner | Cast: Susanna Foster, Boris Karloff | Thriller 1944Nearly two full decades before Boris Karloff starred in Roger Corman’s ‘The Terror’ ‘The Climax’ had emerged under very similar circumstances. Universal by the early forties were well aware of the ability of Technicolor to dress up otherwise cheap productions such as their Maria Montez vehicles. Following the success of their Oscar-winning remake of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ with Claude Rains plainly a sequel was in order.

3 weeks ago | filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor

Dir: Benedikt Erlingsson | Cast: Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson, Charlotte Boving, Helgi Bjornsson | 81mins   Comedy dramaHorses are the stars of Benedikt Erlingsson’s raw and startling debut which was Iceland’s submission to the 2014 Academy Awards. In a remote Icelandic location lives a community of earthy horse-breeders along with their beasts. So attuned are the men to the animals’ needs they often mirror their equine physical urges and desires.

3 weeks ago | filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor

Dir/Wri: Scarlett Johansson | US Drama 2025Actor Scarlett Johansson makes her directorial debut with Eleanor the Great, an insightful and bittersweet drama that views intergenerational friendship and family conflict from the perspective of a 95 year old mother and widow. Eleanor (June Squibb) is enjoying retirement with her close friend Bessie, a Holocaust survivor (Rita Zohar), in a shared beach home in Florida.

4 weeks ago | filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor

Dir: John Ford | US Drama 129’Yet another reason why it remains impossible to treat the Academy Awards with any seriousness is that Alfred Hitchcock never won while fellow Catholic John Ford managed to receive it an incredible FOUR TIMES, the last time being for ‘The Quiet Man’, which was also nominated for – I kid you not – Best Picture.