#NOTMYEMPEROR : Ridley Scott- “Napoleon”

Most of us have very specific, unshakeable conceptions about which 20th-century leaders to hate and which ones to praise. We’ve decided which ones are the bad guys, and which ones are the good guys who had to stop the bad guys, even if general awareness of perspective alerts us that we might be missing pieces …

Thrice Bitten (Part 2) : André Øvredal – “The Last Voyage of the Demeter”

More of the same! “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” concerns itself with a minor (but effectively disturbing) episode from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”: the Count’s maritime journey from remote Romania to London. F. W. Murnau had dealt with the incident, and so had Werner Herzog. What’s worthy about this new horror adventure is that it …