Badlands (1973)

Review: Badlands (1973)

Director: Terrence Malick

Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint,

Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen
Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek
Warren Oates
Warren Oates
Ramon Bieri
Ramon Bieri
Alan Vint
Alan Vint

Plot: A dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

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Terrence Malick&#8217;s <i>The Tree of Life</i>

Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life

As a longtime admirer and fan of Terrence Malick’s work, I’ve been hesitant to write about The Tree of Life because it’s the first of his films that I haven’t loved at first sight. There are many things I liked about it on […]

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