Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
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From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers,...
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Patrick Suskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris 'In eighteenth-century...
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 27: 27
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For decades now Gardner Dozois has been presenting his annual selection of the very best of recently...
Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges and Andrew Hurley
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The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and...
Winegarden
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Winegarden recounts episodes in the life of Jacob Winegarden, an agnostic Jewish professor of...
Contemporary Duologues: One Man + One Woman
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As an actor at any level - whether you are doing theatre studies at school, taking part in youth...
Contemporary Duologues: Two Men
Trilby James and James
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As an actor at any level - whether you are doing theatre studies at school, taking part in youth...
Contemporary Duologues: Two Women
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As an actor at any level - whether you are doing theatre studies at school, taking part in youth...
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated The Lighthouse (2019) in Movies
Jun 18, 2020
It's bleak and minimalist, boasting a cast of two for 98% of the films runtime, it's completely open for interpretation, and poses more questions than it answers, and after a fair bit of thought, I think I actually loved it.
Willem Defoe and Robert Pattinson are unarguably fantastic. There is nothing less than full commitment to what they're trying to do.
Robert Egger's shooting style is great as well. The whole movie is presented in a black and white 4:3 ratio. Some of the grainy framing shots littered throughout echo of old 40s and 50s horror classics, and everything else presented to us feels fresh and new, whilst being fed undertones of Greek mythology and H.P. Lovecraft.
The script is modest and subtle with flashes of intensity, a particular highlight is Willem Defoe's terrifying monologue after his cooking is criticized...
As for the plot, it's anything but straightforward. As I said, open for interpretation, but what starts off as a slightly off-feeling drama snowballs dramatically into something quite disturbing and tense. This is aided by a sporadic but great music score, and the constant noise of the lighthouse engine room (reminded me of the logging mill from Twin Peaks!)
The Lighthouse certainly isn't for everyone, but if you like a challenge with your horror then make sure you check it out.
The Sauce Bible: 400 Fail-safe Recipes to Transform Everyday Dishes into Feasts, Shown in Step by Step in 1400 Photographs
Catherine Atkinson, Maggie Mayhew and Christine France
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This title features 400 fail-safe recipes to transform everyday dishes into feasts, shown step by...