Tuesday
Oct182016
Reviews: "Desierto" and "Under the Shadow"
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 11:00PM by Nathaniel R
Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Gael García Bernal in "Desierto"
Two more Oscar submissions are now in limited release in the US: Mexico's Desierto and the UK's Tehran set film Under the Shadows. Both are what you might call horror films though one suspects only the latter would accept the label.
Desierto
We'll go anywhere with Gael García Bernal, who has blessed us with a number of fine road trip / travel movies in his career like Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Motorcycle Diaries , and The Loneliest Planet. In short, he's the perfect choice as a protagonist if you want us to sign up for a gruelling journey...