Courting Death

Protect the egg? Why not. Except the egg is a football, and this particular football is a playful and punishing presence. Keep the football alive - a football can die now? - and you'll get a great reward of some kind. Let the football perish and you'll have to forfeit more than you might be expecting. No wonder, really, that this singular opportunity for football ownership comes with a payment up-front. You're paid in advance for the privilege and terror of looking after that football. And remember: the football itself is probably an egg. What to do? Read more

The brooding pace and relative silence that characterize writer-director Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood is more evocative of his standout debut film Pig than it is his far more mainstream A Quiet Place: Day One, making this elegiac but brutal period piece his most niche and least accessible film yet. Still, its heady mix of mournful drama and murderous action certainly distinguish it from the litany of other Robin Hood films in existence.