Review: THE UNTHINKABLE Slowly Unleashes Family Hell From Sweden
Christoffer Nordenrot, Lisa Henni and Jesper Barkselius star in a sci-fi action mystery from Sweden that builds to a wild crescendo, directed by filmmaking collective Crazy Pictures.
Family: can t live with em, can t kill em (legally).
We can definitely be tempted by murderous impulses, the kind that are born from flashpoint anger. We can question the motives of those closest to us, whether by birth or marriage. What was he/she/they
thinking?
Families, and movies about families, are anathema to some people, and with good reason. Too often, filmmakers depend heavily upon warm, nostalgic feelings about families, taking it as a given and thus allowing the indulgence of rushed narratives filled with assumptions, as though everyone in the world has a similar set of experiences, or at least experiences easily divided into broad stereotypes: I love my wonderful family; our family was incredibly dysfunctional; what fam
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From the post-apocalypse to the moon, there s a lot of places to be whisked away to this summer. (Image: Paramount, Warner Bros, A24, Marvel Studios, and Netflix)
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We feel like Janine in
Ghostbusters, except instead of screaming “We got one!” it’s “Winter movies in Australia! Movies are back!”
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From the post-apocalypse to the moon, there’s a lot of places to be whisked away to this summer.
Image: Paramount, Warner Bros, A24, Marvel Studios, and Netflix
We feel like Janine in
Ghostbusters, except instead of screaming “We got one!” it’s “Summer movies!”
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Yes, after basically a full year without movies in theaters, covid-19 vaccinations and health regulations have made it possible for some theaters to reopen that means it’s time for an actual summer movie season. Hollywood is dusting off the blockbuster films that were supposed to come out in 2020 and releasing them this year and the boom in home viewing means an equal amount of intriguing films are coming to various on-demand and streaming services over the next few months. It’s not the traditional summer movie season by a long shot, but it’s close and we’ll certainly take it.