If all goes well, this new year of movies will feel a lot smoother than the last two. Although 2021 successfully hosted the return of cinema-going and the final few infamously covid-delayed releases, it always felt like a second attempt at 2020, a sequel instead of a stand-alone movie. 2022 will surely not be another […]
A striking historical sensibility and a concern with emotions over scares-per-minute allows this 1630’s-set horror to transcend the genre. The plot turns on the classic theme of isolation: excommunicated from his small settlement for excessive religiosity, Ralph Inesey’s Puritan patriarch leads his family out into the wilderness, the extreme edge of what was to become […]