When it comes down to it, life and death can be quite funny, enigmatic, and hard to classify. The same can be said for writer/director Richard Kelly’s existential comedy, mystery, science fiction thriller Donnie Darko (2001). A teenage boy begins having disturbing visions, including ones of a six-foot skull-faced rabbit that tells him that the […]
Nicolas Winding Refn makes polarizing films. Aside from his breakout mainstream hit Drive, his films tend to be puzzling exercises in silent takes and enthralling visual set pieces. The Neon Demon is one such example, through more of a female skewed perspective. Refn’s protagonists tend to be stoic silent males, most famously Ryan Gosling with […]