“Money Buys Misery Most in Sean Durkin’s Masterful ‘The Nest'”

Glowing praise preambled with a mea culpa. Continue reading →

Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene, 2011, dir. Sean Durkin

I absolutely adored this mesmerizing, eerie, and breathtakingly composed film– inasmuch as something this unsettling can be adored– and it’s all thanks to some top-drawer editing and a startlingly assured debut by Elizabeth Olsen. Continue reading →