Lars Von Trier’s 2009 film “Antichrist” is a dour-hearted romp through the foul trenches of human depression. The first part of an unofficial Depression Trilogy (which also includes 2011’s “Melancholia” and 2013’s “Nymphomaniac“), “Antichrist” is about a couple who, while engaged in a bout of shower coitus, miss that their five-year-old son has accidentally fallen […]
Continue readingIt’s hard to believe that it took this long for Willem Dafoe to host “Saturday Night Live,” even though there’s actually a pretty reasonable explanation behind the wait. But thanks to the power of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and probably a lack of availability for Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire, the “Spider-Man” franchise villain and […]
Continue readingYou’ve never seen Udo Kier like this before. The heavily accented German character actor, who got his start in Andy Warhol’s “Flesh for Frankenstein” and was finally accepted as a member of the Motion Picture Academy this past year, has spent the intervening decades alternating between art films and exploitation movies, appearing as Nazis and […]
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