Warning: full of spoilers, fire and brimstone. Well, spoilers anyway. My review is here. Character posters are at the bottom of the page. Despite the melodrama, multiple dead bodies and spiders, The Devil All The Time finishes – eventually – on a note that is both cathartic and hopeful. Arvin does survive. The ending is… The Devil All The Time: the devil is in the detail Read More
Last Flag Flying (New York Film Festival 2017) 3.5 stars
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc Shepherd’s son has died, shot in the head in Baghdad. He can be buried… Last Flag Flying (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More
American Pastoral 2.5 stars
I don’t often pick up Great American Novels. Mainly because they’re so heavy and I can’t risk putting my back out. They’re like bricks. You could build a new America on the back of the Great American Novel, literally. American Pastoral is adapted from a Great American Novel by Great American Novelist Philip Roth. I haven’t… American Pastoral Read More