If you want to mourn a beloved actor all over again: Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
Timed to the upcoming Oscars, where Boseman s posthumously nominated for best actor, the 21-minute special is a heartfelt tribute to the late actor s work from collaborators including Viola Davis and Spike Lee. It s fascinating to hear about his commitment to the Black Panther accent and emotional to watch his Ma Rainey s Black Bottom co-stars pore through his script littered with the beloved performer s notes. A teacher, a preacher and a prophet, Taylour Paige, who plays his love interest in Ma Rainey,
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Having recently watched for the first time Ashley Thorpe’s Borley Rectory and re-watched Burnt Offerings, The Banishing comes at a fortuitous time as it draws on the phantoms of the former and the idea of a house that is just plain evil from the latter. Opening with a bloody murder and suicide of a priest and his wife we go forward three years and the arrival of a new priest Linus (John Hefferman) and later on his wife Marianne (Jessica Brown Findlay) and daughter Adelaide (Anya McKenna-Bruce). The house is not in great condition though liveable.
However there are tensions which show up at the dinner table when Adelaide makes a small mistake. More telling are the sexual problems between Linus and Marianne a cause of tension that’s caught up with the pressure put on them by Bishop Malachi (John Lynch) and the stories circulating about the house being built on an old monastery where fanatical Christian monks carried out atrocities supposedly taking them closer t
Director: Travis Stevens
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Anne (Barbara Crampton), a woman in her late 50s who is married to small-town minister Pastor Jakob Fedder (Larry Fessenden), feels her life and marriage have been shrinking over the past 30 years.
Through a chance encounter with âThe Masterâ (Bonnie Aarons), Anne discovers a new sense of power and an appetite to live bigger and bolder than before. However, these changes come with a heavy body count and a toll on her marriage.
The film is scheduled to be released in theaters, on demand and digitally April 16 by RLJE Films and Shudder.
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âThe Banishingâ Review: Choosing My Religion
A haunted English manor serves up incoherent shocks to a young cleric and his family in this Gothic melodrama streaming on Shudder.
Anya McKenna-Bruce and Jessica Brown Findlay in âThe Banishing.âCredit.Shudder
The Banishing
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Silliness trumps scares in Christopher Smithâs âThe Banishing,â a bewildering haunted-house tale larded with Nazis, mad monks, fallen women and a tango-dancing occultist. Why no one thought to include a zombie or two is anyoneâs guess.
The house in question is a sprawling rectory in rural England, the year is 1938 and a young reverend, Linus (John Heffernan), has arrived to replace the cleric who disappeared with his family some years earlier. Accompanying Linus is his new bride, Marianne (Jessica Brown Findlay), and her out-of-wedlock daughter, Adelaide (Anya Mc
Christopher Smith’s “The Banishing,” premiering today on Shudder after a brief fest run, has the stately style and tone of a classical period piece, but it’s also kind of insane. It blends what one would expect from something like “The Haunting of Bly Manor” (and there’s a dose of Mike Flanagan’s “Oculus” along the way too) with elements taken from the giallo kitchen sink, and it all disappears in the British fog. Despite a few strong production values and performances, Smith’s film simply crosses the lane into incoherency and not the surreal David Lynch-esque kind of incoherency that sets a tone, but the this-needed-a-better-edit-or-rewrite kind of incoherency that gets people wondering what else is on Shudder.