There’s something about revenge. Death Wish, Taken, In the Bedroom,and the John Wick franchise all work from a […]
Category Archive: Tim Winterstein
I did not have high hopes for The Seventh Day (2021; Redbox, or for rent on streaming services), […]
It’s an absurd premise: a tennis coach kidnaps someone to train with his player in preparation for the […]
A couple years ago, I started offering to my congregation Matins on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy […]
Saint Maud (2021; available on EPIX via Prime Video Channels) has been marketed like a horror movie, along […]
This show has been on my radar for a while, but it took me a while to get […]
Part III of The Godfather trilogy is routinely and self-evidently reviled. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a score […]
In the first chapter of his book Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, and Rituals, John C. Lyden describes […]
Whatever might occupy your thoughts when you first wake up, whatever might keep you from falling asleep, there […]
Maybe it begins as an attempt by a doctor to expunge her guilt over not allowing a girl […]
The way that we hear the “news” was never strange to me until I read Amusing Ourselves to […]
The opening scene of Pieces of a Woman (2020; Netflix) is like the Free Solo of recent dramas. […]
There is something about the breakdown of marriage that provides irresistible fodder for filmmakers. In 2019 Netflix produced […]
End-of-year, best-of film lists are some of the best evidence that people do not—and, probably, cannot—simply choose the […]
I have seen movies where I am happy about what happens, but the movie itself is a bad […]
Life has a way of taking apart all the pieces of your enchanted world and refusing to put […]
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word “heaven,” or the words […]
La promesse (1997; on the Criterion Channel or for rent on Amazon Prime), written and directed by the […]
By Tim Winterstein –
There are only so many explanations for evil. Think of every single thriller/murder/crime book, show, or film you’ve ever read or seen. I don’t care how long it takes to get to the answer or how many twists there are before the detective solves the crime; you can count the number of motives on one hand.
A lot of movies are pitched as “redemption” stories. A person is caught in a web of his […]