Son Review: Parenting Is Hard When Your Child Is From Hades Son Review: Parenting Is Hard When Your Child Is From Hades
Irish director Ivan Kavanagh s U.S.-set feature is an interesting but uneasy mix of supernatural horror and earnest drama.
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Director: Ivan Kavanagh
With: Andi Matichak, Emile Hirsch, Luke David Blumm, Cranston Johnson, Blaine Maye, J Robert Spencer, Rocco Sisto, Kristine Nielsen, Erin Bradley Dangar, Adam Stephenson, David Kallaway.
Running time: Running time: 98 MIN.
RLJE Films
Most parents have the odd stressful moment when they jokingly wonder if they’re raising a devil’s spawn. Unfortunately for Andi Matichak, that notion seems neither humorous nor hyperbolic in “Son,” wherein the star of David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” reboot has a more “Rosemary’s Baby”-ish problem on her hands.
Copy to Clipboard The Art of Political Murder (HBO)
In April 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi was attacked in his garage and beaten to death. The human rights activist had presented a report that outlined the atrocities of the army in the wake of the Guatemalan Civil War. Three army officers – Colonel Byron Disrael Lima Estrada and Captain Byron Lima Oliva (who were father and son), and José Obdulio Villanueva – were convicted of Gerardi s murder in 2001 and sentenced to 30-year prison terms.
Bishop Geraldi had long been an advocate for the indigenous Mayans of the country and played a major role in getting indigenous languages recognized as official languages in Guatemala. HBO s latest documentary, The Art of Political Murder chronicles the investigation into Bishop Gerardi s murder, highlighting the team of young investigators who take on the case and begin to unearth deception, misconduct, and corruption that reach the highest levels of government. Read on to know more abou