Moon Monkey

Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” is a landmark in film history, inspiring much in the genre of science-fiction cinema that followed. Based on a novel by Thea von Harbou. it tells the story of a familial struggle that comes to represent the warring classes of post-industrial societies. Early in the film we are introduced to the workers who slave away deep underground, maintaining the machines that power the city. High above in lush gardens we find the upper classes frolicking. A young woman named Maria brings a group of children from the lower levels to see their ‘brothers’ in this luxurious upper world. She is soon removed from their garden with the children and forced to return downstairs. Not before catching the attention of Freder. Freder is the son of Fredersen, the wealthy capitalist who controls Metropolis. Interested in this woman, Freder follows her down to the depths where he witnesses the harsh conditions of the workers. After a fire breaks out in one of the machines, Freder a...

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) by Yorgos Lanthimos

An exploration of responsibility, karma and death that manages to sustain an atmosphere of overwhelming dread throughout. The film opens with a surgeon Stephen Murphy, played by Colin Farrell, as he performs an operation. We see the open-heart surgery in grisly details in an extended shot of the organ pulsating as the doctors hands move in to operate. It is a scene that focuses the mind and will ensure that you put down whatever you were eating to pay attention. Farrell's character is shown to be meeting with a young boy, Martin, who appears to be somewhat unusual. We later learn that this boy was the son of a patient who died during one of Stephen's operations. When Farrell's son wakes up to find himself paralysed from the waist down, he is told by Martin that unless he kills one of his own family, his son, daughter and wife will all die. This death is required as payment for the death of his father, who he believes was murdered by Stephen due to malpractice during...

Mulholland Drive (2001) review

Arguably David Lynch's masterpiece, this surreal, nightmarish crime-thriller, blending everything from soap opera melodrama to straight up horror showcases his immense talents as both a writer and director. Watching Mulholland Drive is an experience unlike any other film I have ever seen as it tests you on a number of levels, with its miasmic dream-world capturing your imagination in a way that few films ever manage. The real strength here is that so much is left unexplained. While the latter portion of the film helps to define and explain some of the apparent inconsistencies of the preceding story there are a number of moments, characters, and mysteries that are unresolved even on a third of fourth viewing. The film begins with a dark-haired woman played by Laura Harring being driven up the winding road of the title, that snakes into the hills of Los Angeles. After being involved in a car accident, she stumbles downhill towards the sleeping town, taking refuge in the fir...

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