Tag: Jai Courtney

Honest Thief | Review

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Man Down | Review

Little Drummer Boy: Montiel’s Misguided and Manipulative PTSD Allegory Since his autobiographical 2006 debut A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, director Dito Montiel has been...

Suicide Squad | Review

Monsters, Inc.: Ayer’s DC Comic Mashup is All Bark and No Bite Try as he might, director David Ayer’s valiant efforts to counter the onslaught...

The Water Diviner | Review

Turkey Dressing: Crowe’s Well-Intentioned Debut Ultimately Mundane In the comparable tradition of Mel Gibson and Kevin Costner, actor Russell Crowe makes a big budget, historically...

Insurgent | Review

Rebel Heart: Schwentke Usurps Plebeian YA Franchise In many ways, Insurgent is an easier film to watch than its 2014 predecessor, Divergent, in which we...

Felony | Review

Patch of Blue: Saville’s Sophomore Film Lost in Endless Ellipses For his first film since his 2007 feature debut Noise, Australian director Matthew Saville returns...

Divergent | Review

Dissatisfaction: Burger Launches the Next YA Dystopia to Unwieldy Lengths Director Neil Burger joins genre courting/sci-fi alum Andrew Niccol’s dip into the abscessed pool of...

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The Devils (1971) | Review

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.