Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premis
Foxcatcher chronicles the tragic partnership of multi-m
Hell hath no fury like a fairy whose wings have been
Directed by Bill Siegel (The Weather Underground), The Trials of Muhammad Ali is a brief film that plays more like a precis of Ali’s life than a profound look at the transformative people’s champion. This is not to say that the film isn’t worthy of a watch. But, it is to suggest that the film does more […]
Among brilliant moments are those that we have seen many times before.
There is too much too familiar and too much lost in this precis of the porno chic era.
Matthew McConaughey turns in his third great performance in a row in a tale about our cultural anxieties over love.
After a six year break, GoldenEye became the rebirth of the Bond franchise, this time featuring Pierce Brosnan as 007. While License to Kill marked the end of an era with Bond’s shift from Mi6 agent to rogue vigilante, GoldenEye marks another shift in the tone of Bond films. Perhaps entry into the 1990’s predicated a change […]
The Bret Easton Ellis trope of masturbatory nihilism is obvious in the first few moments of The Canyons upon Ryan’s rhetorical interrogative, “does anyone really know anyone?” The seemingly short distance between the two couples at the restaurant table is cold desert at midnight. Two of them, Ryan and Gina, both of who are looking for careers […]
After a steady succession of films in the Bond franchise released every two years, the much darker and much more violent (until Casino Royale, that is) License to Kill marked the beginning of a six-year hiatus in the Bond franchise before we were privy to the Brosnan generation. It also marked the final film for actor Robert […]
Gru returns, this time as a doting father figure whose loneliness is the biggest villain of the film.
