NOSFERATU Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Robert EggersStars: Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Bill Skarsgard, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Simon McBurney, Ralph Ineson, Willem Dafoe. This umpteenth retelling of the Dracula legend has been something of a passion project for idiosyncratic filmmaker Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, etc) and is full of his usual signature touches and darker …
THE NORTHMAN
Reviewed by GREG KINGDirector: Robert EggersStars: Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Bjork, Oscar Novak.Something is rotten in the state of Iceland. Director Robert Eggers previously gave us the supernatural stylings of 2015’s The Witch and 2019’s austere claustrophobic The Lighthouse. Now he gives us this violent, gory and blood …
THE WITCH
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Robert Eggers Stars: Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw.Set in a New England colony in the early 1700s, before the time of the Salem witch trials, this is a slow burn drama about a family torn apart by witchcraft and demonic possession. A God fearing puritanical family is expelled from their community for the sin of "prideful conceit" and forced to fend …
