It’s a dark, stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins. Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life on the Olivier stage in a thrilling new adaptation by Bryony Lavery.
Polly Findlay, Tim Van Someren
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Arthur Darvill
Long John Silver
David Sterne
Blind Pew
Aidan Kelly
Bill Bones
Daniel Coonan
Black Dog
Patsy Ferran
Jim Hawkins
Gillian Hanna
Grandma
Raj Bajaj
Job Anderson
Oliver Birch
George Badger
Claire-Louise Cordwell
Joan the Goat
Angela de Castro
Israel Hands
Paul Dodds
Captain Smollett
When it comes the horror genre, I am VERY hard to please or impress, much less scare. Coming from a current mindset of appreciation for chilling, unsettling, tension-inducing efforts such as "Hereditary", "The Conjuring" (ONLY the first one to date, mind you), "Lights Out", "The Babadook", "Midsommar", "Talk To Me", "Oddity", "Bring Her Back", and the like
The film basically says she was a lost cause from the start. We don't get a sense of who Marilyn was.
Netflix's new thriller Apex, starring Charlize Theron, puts a twist on survival horror. Despite its setting in the beautiful- yet-dangerous Australian wilderness, Apex is not a movie about man vs. nature. Instead, it’s woman vs. man. While checking out the title card and its unpretentious Netflix release might lead viewers to believe Apex is just another celebrity project churned out of the streaming machine, Apex - whether by luck or by intention - is a consistently harrowing film about the reality of being a woman in a public space.
A brief look at two Barry Jenkins films that have established him as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
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