Tag: Eddie Marsan

Firebrand | Review

One Survived: Ainouz Attempts to Give a Queen Her Due The Tudor era has maintained public fascination for the past five hundred years, a linchpin...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Back to Black

Of all our Sundance predictions this item might be our Hail Mary prediction we find Back to Black. Cannes programmers would be keen on...

Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 5

A mainstay in the Un Certain Regard section (with a whopping four films as director/writer) and has sprinkled his films in Venice and Berlinale...

The Contractor | Review

Harper Does It Better: Saleh Taps Pine for Pluralistic Espionage “It’s much easier to kill, but it’s harder to survive,” is the most useful line...

Flag Day | Review

Americana Trauma: Penn Returns with Hysterical Melodrama After the formidable misfire of his last directorial effort The Last Face (2016), Sean Penn unfortunately doesn’t fare...

Wrath of Man [Video Review]

Money for Nothin’: Ritchie Wreaks Havoc in Violent L.A. Neo-Noir At long last, Guy Ritchie returns to his roots with Wrath of Man, a violent...

Tuesday Blus: Intermezzo, Blade Runner: 2049 & Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Intermezzo (1939) Film Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ Disc Review: ★★★/☆☆☆☆☆ It’s a tale as old as time, more vintage than...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #90. Jose Padilha’s 7 Days in Entebbe

7 Days in Entebbe Brazilian director Jose Padilha was one of many unfortunate foreign auteurs burned by the Hollywood studio system with his 2014 reboot...

Atomic Blonde | Review

Hey There, Stoli Girl: Theron Crackles with a Cold War Climax Giving new meaning to the term ‘blonde ambition,’ Charlize Theron steals the action icon...

Their Finest | Review

A Screen of Their Own: Scherfig Concocts Winning WWII Romantic Comedy Danish director Lone Scherfig, best known for her Dogme 95 breakout Italian for Beginners...

Concussion | Review

Head in the Game: Landesman Continues to Plumb the Headlines Films based on notable or landmark pieces of newsprint tend to face an uphill battle...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andy Goddard’s A Kind of Murder

Climbing up the ranks with mostly writing and directing television gigs (this includes a handful of "Downton Abbey" episodes), Andy Goddard flew under the radar...

Filth | Review

Bad Detective: Baird Adapts Welsh for (Sometimes) Outrageous Effect Danny Boyle’s 1996 classic Trainspotting set the bar for Irvine Welsh adaptations (Boyle is apparently at...

God’s Pocket | Review

Pocket Full of Sunshine: Slattery’s Debut Weak in the Knees The devil’s not in all the details he should be of God’s Pocket, the directorial...

Popular