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Home » Archives for Colleen Morrissey

Author Archives: Colleen Morrissey

Posted inFilm

A testosterone-fueled hero’s journey

by Colleen Morrissey April 28, 2022April 28, 2022

The Northman is not a bad film. . . . But I can’t help but be disappointed that Eggers took this politically and socially fraught figure, the Viking, and played it so straight.

Posted inFilm

The Tragedy of Macbeth

by Colleen Morrissey December 22, 2021December 22, 2021

The film presents a beautifully bleak vision of doomed political ambition which ultimately shows that, even when fascists are incompetent, their ruthlessness creates irredeemable suffering.

a scared woman and young boy
Posted inFilm

Antlers

by Colleen Morrissey October 29, 2021December 14, 2021

Though its trailer promises a meditation on the nature of storytelling, what it delivers is a serviceable monster film that breaks no new ground.

The Green Knight
Posted inFilm

The Green Knight shines when it embraces the strange

by Colleen Morrissey August 2, 2021August 18, 2021

But stumbles when it tries to stay too true to its source.

Artist and author Riva Lehrer in Code of the Freaks
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Code of the Freaks highlights Hollywood’s ableism

by Colleen Morrissey May 10, 2021August 18, 2021

The Chicago-made documentary tells stories of disability that aren’t shown on the silver screen.

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