Bella Heathcote
Movie Review: Relic
While the new horror film Relic, starring Emily Mortimer and Bella Heathcote, is ostensibly about a haunted house, there is much more going on within the film’s ninety-minute running time that make the film from Natalie Erika James easily one of the better offerings in the genre in recent memory. When elderly widow Edna (Robyn Nevin) inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay (Emily Mortimer) and gra...[Read More]
Movie Review: Not Fade Away
Okay if you lived through the 1960s and/or you have a love for classic rock. That just about sums up David Chase’s debut film, Not Fade Away. The film, which takes its title from an early Rolling Stones song (which is, in fact, a cover of a Buddy Holly song), is the coming of age story of three high school kids with musical aspirations fueled by a Rolling Stones’ 1964 television appear...[Read More]
Movie Review: Dark Shadows
Having never watched the original 1960s daily soap opera Dark Shadows and holding a steady grudge against director Tim Burton for the abrasive Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland (not to mention Johnny Depp’s last run of disappointments), I went into Burton’s gothic-comic update of the original camp-cult favorite with more than a little trepidation. After two hours of gorge...[Read More]