Film Review - A Patch of Fog
January 19, 2017
Actor Stephen Graham has appeared in a great number of films, showing up in supporting roles, typically playing lackeys and goons in pictures like “Snatch,” “Gangs of New York,” and “This is England.” “A Patch of Fog” doesn’t rework Graham’s screen presence, but it does offer him atypical depth, gifting him a chance to play a “Single White Female”-style game of stalking with screenwriting that sympathizes with the monster, using thriller conventions to make sense of loneliness. Graham is terrific here, joined by an equally sharp turn from co-star Conleth Hill, with the men committed to the inspection of a particularly tense relationship built on blackmail and opportunity. However, “A Patch of Fog” doesn’t work itself up into a frenzy, taking a more subtle direction when spotlighting a toxic union between predator and prey. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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