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Revisiting Mike Flanagan’s Absentia

Revisiting Mike Flanagan’s Absentia

Sometimes it's worth looking back. I've been so impressed by Midnight Mass, and basically be everything Mike Flanagan has done so far, that I took a couple of hours on a quiet Friday afternoon and re-watched Absentia, his first (available) feature film made more than...

Winchester is just … a waste

Winchester is just … a waste

How could so much money and talent be wasted on such an utterly uninvolving, derivative, boring ‘haunted house’ movie? This shambling, unfeeling, tedious thing has beautiful production design, a large budget, a whole host of solid actors in lead and supporting roles. It has Helen Mirren in it. Friggin’ Helen Mirren, doing a remarkably bad American accent. It has a remarkably good premise at the center of it: a haunted house story about one of the best-known, if not ‘real,’ haunted houses in modern America. And yet there is not a single legitimate scare, not even a good jump, in the whole damn thing. It’s literally hard to get through in a single sitting.

The Stranger is pretty good, but Harlan Coben? Meh.

The Stranger is pretty good, but Harlan Coben? Meh.

Harlan Coben's The Stranger is the firt indication than heis adaptations don't have to be kind of limp and half-baked.. Maybe there's hope. Coben makes a few jillion dollars a year on his suspense novels (though 'suspense' seems like a pretty strong word for his...

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