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 By Graham Craycraft Men is the newest film by writer/director Alex Garland. Garland is best known for his two movies Annihilation and Ex Machina . Both previous films are excellent additions into the modern sci-fi genre. This newest one, Men , is more in line with what I have dubbed as the New Age Horror that leaves cheap jump scares and thin plot lines behind for more psychological and often folk based stories. Think Midsommar , Hereditary , The Witch , and even Lamb . The New Age Horror bring terrifying to a new level, and it is a very exciting time to be in genre. Men is also through A24 production company which if you have read many of our pieces here you know we love A24. I do not love this movie. Men is about a woman, played by Jessie Buckley, who retreats to the English countryside after the suicide of her husband. She wants to treat herself and try to work through the pain of his death. What she finds is not that, however. The men of the town begin to terrorize her s...

By Graham Craycraft The   Northman  is a 2022 Action-adventure movie set in the Viking world around the year 900 AD. From director of  The Witch  and  The Lighthouse , Robert Eggers, we get this brutal, beautiful, and complex action movie. This is not a typical all war with a straightforward plot and a clear protagonist/antagonist. Eggers pulls you in different directions and shows that there is no heart all pure or all corrupt. We all carry in us the power and reality to do good and evil. Alexander Skarsgard, the main character Amleth, had been hunting for a Viking role for some years now and Eggers fit the bill. Eggers cowrote this film with Sjón who recently also helped write  Lamb  with Valdimar Johannsson. This movie is a beast of an epic that has takes the audience on a journey with Amleth as he grows from a boy to a berserker Viking set to avenge his father’s death and save his mother. If you are familiar with Eggers work at all you will kno...