Tag: Beau Knapp
Death Wish | Review
Wish in One Hand…: Roth Revamps Urban Terror for the Neo-Privileged
Vigilantism isn’t perhaps the best narrative thrust for American audiences during the early days...
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Blu-ray Review
Whether due to its title, subject matter, pronounced formatting, or lackluster marketing campaign, Ang Lee’s latest, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk failed to inspire...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #68. Fernando Coimbra’s Sand Castle
Sand Castle
Director: Fernando Coimbra
Writer: Chris Roessner
Brazilian director Fernando Coimbra received favorable notices for his 2013 child abduction thriller A Wolf at the Door before...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tali Shalom-Ezer’s Mercy
The chances of seeing Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer's Mercy premiere at Sundance are next to nil and that's not because it wouldn't be...
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Review
Walk the Line: Lee’s Technological Prowess Yearns for More Than Earnest Wartime Narrative Can Deliver
For his first venture since 2012 Oscar winner Life of...
The Nice Guys | Blu-ray Review
Comedic neo-noir is difficult to achieve, not unlike a recent trend of popular hybrids sporting humor and horror as freely interchangeable elements, resulting in...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gary Michael Schultz’s Vincent-N-Roxxy
Half a dozen shorts, one unheard of horror feature film offering (2013's Devil In My Ride) and several indie producing creds most recently William...
The Gift | Blu-ray Review
One of the best surprises of 2015 thus far has been Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut, The Gift. The increasingly prolific actor somehow managed to...
The Gift | Review
Keep on Giving: Edgerton’s Debut a Surprisingly Adept Thriller
Actor Joel Edgerton makes his feature directorial debut with The Gift, an intelligent, enjoyably entertaining thriller...
Southpaw | Review
My Left Fist: Fuqua’s Sports Drama a Familiar, Emotionally Charged Comeback
After another recent dalliance in action genre schlock, director Antoine Fuqua returns with the...
The Signal | Review
Scrambled Transmission: Eubank’s Sophomore Effort Relies on Visual Strengths
William Eubank expands his brand of cerebral sci-fi with sophomore effort, The Signal, following up from...
Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead) & Adam Wingard (The Guest) Make Return to Park City at Midnight Section
I had a hunch that Cooties (read here) and Adam Wingard's The Guest (read here) might make it into what appears to be a...
