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IR Film Review: EL CONDE [Netflix]
The aspect of a vampire debating the textures of life from a very geographical point of view is unusual but with a director like Pablo Larrain, like Jim Jarmusch and Abel Ferrara before -- directors known for different kinds of films —- taking a swing at this idea/genre can produce both interesting results but also missed opportunities.
IR Film Review: CONDOR’S NEST [Saban]
The context that drives "Condor's Nest" is revenge but one draped in the almost noir structure Westerns of the late 50s/early 60s portray where rage blinds a man despite the reasoning that he is up against. Will Spaulding is a man who lost his entire flight squadron during World War II to a sadistic colonel who took no mercy but chocked it up to the focus of war.
IR Film Review: THE WEASEL’S TALE [Outsider]
With "The Weasel's Tale", the aspect of a film within a film or a story about show business can be a standard in reflexivity and therefore meta. What it does here is bring out the fact of what the different people that populate this certain house of a former famous actress represent.