Leah Saylor-Abney's thoughts on movies, books, and writing.
You had me at In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt) by Edvard Grieg as the score in the opening scene while a young woman runs for her life from a mob of…what? I could not tell. Dead Snow (Død snø, 2009), directed by Tommy Wirkola, only gets better from there. 4 1/2 [...]
A coming of age movie with a bite, er, twist that could have failed had it not been for Dawn O’Keefe and a well-developed plot. Some may call Teeth (2007), written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein, a heavy-handed feminist movie. Me? I call it pure black comedy / horror entertainment at (close to) its finest; [...]
