In a Glass Cage (1987)

In a Glass Cage

Film review by: Witney Seibold 

My twisted quest to find the worlds sickest and most twisted films has now led me to Agusí Villronga‘s 1987 art-house shocker “In a Glass Cage,” a film about pedophiles, Nazis, revenge torture, extreme fetish, and one of the weirdest sex scenes this side of David Cronenberg. (more…)

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Submarine

Submarine

Film review by: Witney Seibold

Richard Ayoade‘s coming-of-age film “Submarine,” deftly captures what it is like to be a teenager is ways that films about teenagers rarely bother to approach. The film’s hero, a mop-topped, Bud-Cort-looking 15-year-old Welsh schoolboy named Lloyd Tate (played with a wide-eyed, gee-whiz desperation by Noah Taylor), is desperate to be cool, and has, as so many teenagers do, affected a rebellious persona for himself predicated on old records, French New-Wave films, and broody sojourns to the gray, gray seaside. (more…)

Published in: on June 6, 2011 at 1:15 pm  Leave a Comment