John Schlesinger’s The Believers, a kind of voodoo twist on Rosemary’s Baby, is a horror movie where the echoes of otherworldly menace set the tone of terror, but the real evil comes from the hearts of humans. Recently widowed psychologist Martin Sheen moves to New York with his emotionally fragile son, and they become entwined […]
The Fall: The Series
The plot of The Fall is incredibly straightforward; the police are out to catch a serial killer. On its own, that doesn’t sound very interesting. What makes The Fall interesting is the time it takes allowing the audience to get to know the serial killer. We know that Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) is the killer; […]
Cinema as Therapy: Grief and Transformational Film
Loss is an inescapable reality of life, and individuals need to develop a capacity to grieve in order to mature and live life to the full. Yet most western movie audiences live in cultures that do not value this necessary process and filmgoers finding themselves deeply moved by a particular film are often left wondering […]
The Revenant
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820’s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. This film transports you to the 1820’s American wilderness where the mountain men carved out a living trapping for furs. This movie has captured that […]