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...
