Spoiler Scale (How spoilery is this article on a scale of 1 to 10?):  7 A husband who works 60 hours a week to provide a nice house for his wife and private school for his children might be the last person to whom we would apply the traditional label of “sloth.”  But at this point in the history of the traditional ... Read More »

Spoiler Scale (How spoilery is this article on a scale of 1 to 10)?   4 Writer/director Michael Haneke’s trademark is shining an often unflattering light on our sociological constructs.  In Funny Games (1997 & 2007) and Caché (2005), he poked and prodded at the family unit to see just how much it could take in the midst of survival instincts and guilt.  In his last film, The White ... Read More »