Netflix is losing a collection of excellent movies this month including The Hunger Games \u2014 here are the 5 you need to watch while you still have the chance.
The original Silent Hill movie wasn’t well-liked when it was released in 2006, but watching it on Amazon in anticipation of a new Silent Hill game reveals it’s a cult horror hit.
Fifteen years after SILENT HILL s release, an examination of the film s nightmarish adoption narrative.
By Kyle Turner · @TyleKurner · April 21, 2021, 10:56 AM CDT Jodelle Ferland and Radha Mitchell in SILENT HILL (2006).
Adoption is an easily sentimentalized subject matter for film, flattened like pressed flowers in someone’s journal. The child is adopted, the parents are good, the child grows up with the desire to make contact with their birth parents, the child looks for them to find the “missing piece” in their identity, the child finds them (or not), and then the child remembers that it’s not just the birth parents that made them who they are, but also the parents who raised the child, and a celebration of nature