Brandon Streussnig On Film

IT COMES AT NIGHT Written & Directed by: Trey Edwards Shults Starring:   Joel Edgerton                 Christopher Abbott                 Carmen Ejogo                Riley Keough                 Kelvin Harrison Jr.  "Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son. But this will soon be put to the test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge." Is it possible to recognize how well made and well acted a film is and still not like it? That's the question I had when leaving Trey Edwards Shults's sophomore film It Comes at Night . Coming off of his breakout debut, Krisha , Shults has immediately shot up the ranks of "Must Watch" directors for me. When I heard he was doing a horror film next my interest was piqued. Krisha is not a horror film but it's paced and shot like one and Shults ramps the tension up until you

"Gloria is an out of work party-girl forced to leave her life in New York City, and move back home. When reports surface that a giant monster is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon." Written and Directed by: Nacho Vigalondo Starring: Anne Hathaway                   Jason Sudeikis                   Austin Stowell                  Tim Blake Nelson                   Dan Stevens  While the monster destroying Seoul, South Korea is very real and very dangerous, the real monster of Colossal lies within the men on the other side of the world. At first glance, Nacho Vigalondo's monster mash comes off as a comedy about a down on her luck woman finding true love after she moves back home. What you aren't prepared for is the jarring tonal shift that takes place. A tonal shift that makes the film more worthwhile than it ever would have been had it been a stock rom-com. From this point fo