Content Warning for talk of sexual assault that happens in the film. For lack of a better descriptor, Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale is one hell of a watch. It has prompted walk-outs and has been dismissal as another rape-revenge narrative.…
‘The Nightingale’ Review: A messy and violent look at humanity | Sundance 2019
There’s no denying The Nightingale is a difficult watch. (When the theater manager says they have psychologists waiting outside if you need to leave, it’s pretty serious.) But while The Nightingale is punishing in its depiction of sexual violence, there’s…
Best Decades in Horror: The 2010’s and the female film directors revolutionizing modern horror
If horror storytelling were an unassembled IKEA wardrobe, women would be the scrappy DIY-er who pieces it together. From Mary Shelley’s ground-shattering Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House…