(center, left-right) Kate Phillips as Hester Gatty and Jack Lowden as famed war poet Siegfried Sassoon in a scene from Terence Davies’ biopic Benediction. Courtesy of Roadside Attractions
A haunting biopic about a haunted man, Benediction is a masterful, visually dynamic film about a complex man famous for his writing about the horror of war. Decorated for bravery and beloved by the soldiers serving with him, Siegfried Sassoon was a WWI British officer who returned from that brutal conflict to vocally oppose the war, and became one of Britain’s acclaimed war poets.
Benediction is a brilliant feast of a film, written and directed by British auteur Terence Davies. Sassoon was among the renowned war poets who came out of WWI, a devastating conflict whose brutality virtually wiped out a generation, toppled monarchies, and prompted the Geneva Convention’s rules on warfare. Sassoon’s pointed yet lyrical war poetry struck...
A haunting biopic about a haunted man, Benediction is a masterful, visually dynamic film about a complex man famous for his writing about the horror of war. Decorated for bravery and beloved by the soldiers serving with him, Siegfried Sassoon was a WWI British officer who returned from that brutal conflict to vocally oppose the war, and became one of Britain’s acclaimed war poets.
Benediction is a brilliant feast of a film, written and directed by British auteur Terence Davies. Sassoon was among the renowned war poets who came out of WWI, a devastating conflict whose brutality virtually wiped out a generation, toppled monarchies, and prompted the Geneva Convention’s rules on warfare. Sassoon’s pointed yet lyrical war poetry struck...
- 6/3/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
We make it out of the badlands alive during the show's action-packed final episode. Or do we?
This Into The Badlands review contains spoilers.
Into the Badlands Season 3 Episode 16
I don't like series finales.
They tell you when the ride ends, when the party's over, when you’re being kicked out of an entire universe.
They take away all the possibilities that the show fostered within you, sealing them up in a jar that will sit on a shelf deep down in the basement of your mind. Oftentimes, these ceremonious episodes try to do too much and leave the audience with little left to go on in the name of closure.
But if we’re not provided with this closure that we feel entitled to — if the finale is too open-ended and plot threads are left dangling on purpose — it’s an incomplete experience. And that's worse. Because then, not...
This Into The Badlands review contains spoilers.
Into the Badlands Season 3 Episode 16
I don't like series finales.
They tell you when the ride ends, when the party's over, when you’re being kicked out of an entire universe.
They take away all the possibilities that the show fostered within you, sealing them up in a jar that will sit on a shelf deep down in the basement of your mind. Oftentimes, these ceremonious episodes try to do too much and leave the audience with little left to go on in the name of closure.
But if we’re not provided with this closure that we feel entitled to — if the finale is too open-ended and plot threads are left dangling on purpose — it’s an incomplete experience. And that's worse. Because then, not...
- 5/6/2019
- Den of Geek
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