Hereditary (2018)
Ari Aster’s 2018 debut. Toni Collette as a mother whose family unravels after her own mother’s death. The dinner table scene. Hard to shake.
Gabriel Byrne
This archive gathers the films featuring Gabriel Byrne reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Cool World (1992)”, “Excalibur (1981)”, “Hereditary (2018)”, and “Miller’s Crossing (1990)” — 4 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how Gabriel Byrne serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Coens’ 1990 Prohibition-era gangster film. Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan. The film the Coens made between their two most-praised early works and the underrated one.
Cool World (1992)
Bakshi’s 1992 live-action-animation noir. Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne. The disastrous attempted Who Framed Roger Rabbit follow-up. Notable mainly as a cautionary tale.
Excalibur (1981)
Excalibur is the definitive screen adaptation of the Arthurian legend and one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s. John Boorman directed…