Tag Archives: Jeremy Saulnier

Review in Brief: Rebel Ridge (2024)

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Sam S-P

It’s depressingly rare today to come upon a suspense film that genuinely keeps you guessing the direction it is heading in. Jeremy Saulnier’s REBEL RIDGE, a politically pointed, punchy modern Western certainly does that. Terry (Aaron Pierre) rides into a … Continue reading →

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Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2018, Part 1

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Sam S-P

Where did 2018 go? For me it’s been a funny year of highs and lows, beginnings and ends and other summing-up-the-year clichés as well. In film, the year started well, then flagged a bit in the middle before picking up … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: Hold the Dark (2018)

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Sam S-P

Blue, green, dark? Dark isn’t a colour Jeremy Saulnier! HOLD THE DARK is relentlessly miserable and pointlessly vague. I get that Saulnier doesn’t seem to have much faith in humanity, that he is depicting real monsters whose actions could never … Continue reading →

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Review in Brief: I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017)

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Sam S-P

I think the best thing I can say about Macon Blair’s debut as writer-director is that it’s a curiosity. For years he’s been a game regular as an actor in grisly genre fare (collaborations with Jeremy Saulnier stand out) and … Continue reading →

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