Red Riding: 1974

The Red Riding Trilogy is a trio of films based on the novels of David Peace (The Damned United).  The novels and films are a mix of fact and fiction centered around the disappearances of several young girls and the crimes of the actual Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, who killed 13 women from 1975-80 while eluding police. (Sutcliffe could, astonishingly, be released from prison two years from now.) The films reverberate significantly with one... Read More

Brideshead Revisited

It’s difficult to compare this movie to the novel it’s based off of when I’ve never read it.  But if the film is similar to the book, I think that I’ll probably pass on it (no offense to Evelyn Waugh).  There is so much content shoved into this 1 hour and 40 minute film, I never really quite understood what direction director Julian Jarrold wanted to go. The first third of the film was incestuously and erotically charged... Read More