Tag: Cillian Murphy
Small Things like These | Review
All the Small Things: Mielants Mines the Evils of Complicity
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...
Oppenheimer | Review
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...
A Quiet Place Part II [Video Review]
Islands in the Stream: Krasinski Doesn’t Disappoint with Long Awaited Genre Sequel
There’s something intrinsically inviting about the grueling survival odyssey of the Abbott family,...
Tuesday Blus: Max Ophüls’ Letter from an Unknown Woman, Nolan’s Dunkirk & Bigelow’s Detroit
This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Dunkirk (2017) - Warner Bros., Detroit (2017) - Twentieth Century Fox, Letter from an...
Dunkirk | Review
The Art of War: Nolan Wages War of the Senses in Visceral Reenactment
On all accounts as noble a cinematic endeavor as it is sheer...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 41. Sally Potter’s The Party
The Party
Director: Sally Potter
Writer: Sally Potter
British filmmaker shot to prominence in 1992 with her sophomore feature, an exquisite adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s genderbending novel Orlando,...
Free Fire | 2016 BFI London Film Festival Review
Gunfight at Boston, MA: Wheatley’s Portrait of a Vicious Shootout
Massachusetts, 1970s. More precisely, the docks of Boston, where plans for a weapons trade at...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #39. Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire
Free Fire
Director: Ben Wheatley
Writers: Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump
British director Ben Wheatley returns with his sixth feature, Free Fire, after amassing a wildly popular following...
In the Heart of the Sea | Review
Two if by Sea: Howard’s Whaling Expedition Sinks to the Fathoms
Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is one of the seminal epics of American literature,...
Transcendence | Review
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes: Pfister’s Debut Oversteps Limited Reach
Hopes were perhaps set a bit too high for the directorial debut of Wally Pfister,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #198. Wally Pfister’s Transcendence
Transcendence
Director: Wally Pfister
Writer(s): Jack Paglen
Producer(s): Straight Up Films Straight Up Films' Annie Marter + Alcon Ent.'s Marisa Polvino, Kate Cohen, David Valdes and Broderick...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Claudia Llhosa’s Aloft
Madeinusa, her debut film, was a 2006 Sundance selected pic, while her sophomore drama The Milk of Sorrow was a winner in Berlin, we...