Bombs Away: How Christopher Nolan Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb
For his highly anticipated twelfth feature, Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan returns to the annals of...
Don’t Hold Your Breath: Stein Strains Plausibility in B Thriller
Unfolding with all the believability of a science fiction film set in a parallel universe,...
Pitch Rider to Perdition: Fastvold Fans Flames of Forbidden Desire in Masterful Period Drama
Few and far between are cinematic narratives which attempt to, much...
Light of My Life
Conceptually it could have added so much to the performance art and art imitating life discourse, unfortunately, Casey Affleck's directorial debut...
Post Manchester by the Sea, in February of 2017, Casey Affleck began filming Light of My Life in British Columbia’s Okanagan valley. Significantly slowing...
Stoner
After more weighty studio projects in Pan (2015) and The Darkest Hour (2017), Joe Wright moves more into prestige medium sized independent pic with...
With commendable marketing following the strong critical reception out of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, David Lowery’s enigmatic return to indie filmmaking paid off...
Voyage of Time: Lowery’s Distinctive, Elegiac Treatise on Grief, Time, and Elusive Solace
Although it isn’t an actual adaptation of her short story, David Lowery’s...
Hailed as a masterpiece by many a major critical outlet immediately after it premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, Kenneth Lonergan’s third title...
The Fire Last Time: Lonergan’s Austere Portrait of Razed Emotions in Chilly New England
Kenneth Lonergan musters yet another masterful portrait of pervasive trauma with...
Following the relative disappointment of his 2012 Western Lawless, John Hillcoat scored a pulpy comeback with heist thriller Triple 9, even though it only recouped...
The Russians Are Coming: Hillcoat Juggles Strands in Sprawling Heist Thriller
About half way into John Hillcoat’s impressively staged heist thriller Triple 9, it becomes...
Don’t Let’s Ask For the Moon: Nolan’s Space Opera for the Ages
At last divorcing himself from the omnipotent shadows of Batman, director Christopher Nolan’s...
Triple Nine
Director: John Hillcoat
Writer: Matt Cook
Producers: Anonymous Content's Bard Dorros, Steve Golin and Keith Redmon
U.S. Distributor: Open Road
Cast: Aaron Paul, Michael B. Jordan, Kate...
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Director/Writer: David Lowery
Producer(s): Parts and Labor’s Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen, Primary Productions’ Amy Kaufman, Sailor Bear’s Toby Halbrook, Evolution...
Out of the Furnace
Director: Scott Cooper
Writer(s): Cooper and Brad Ingelsby
Producer(s): Michael Costigan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Kavanaugh, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Brooklyn...