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
Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s most recent collaboration, The Worlds End, is much like their previous collaborations in that it elucidates a seemingly endemic fear of monotony. Shaun of the Dead limned this with slow, staggering, brain-hungry zombies; Hot Fuzz saw a town consumed by a perfection-driven cult. In The World’s End, we watch the sleepy town […]
The follow up to this new franchise feels a lot like it did thirty years ago.
The most recent installment in the Mission Impossible franchise has appropriately been released without the sequential 4. Instead, it has been subtitled Ghost Protocol, something that serves two purposes. First, it distances itself from the stigmatized logarithm of exponential sequels: the higher the number, the more diluted the acting, story, and overall quality of the film. Second, […]
Until Attack the Block came out earlier this year, there was a paucity of British, alien-centric films. Monsters, a 2010 film written and directed by Gareth Edwards, seems to be the best reviewed, but there’s nothing really to gauge it against for the fifty years prior. This is one of the many things that make Paul so […]
