Tag: Sam Neill
Jurassic World Dominion | Review
This World Is Not Enough: Trevorrow Goes Through the Motions in Extinction Level Event
It’s neither the first nor the last time a toxic commingling...
Carpenter Gets Mouthy with Inventive “In the Mouth of Madness” (1994) | Blu-ray Review
In the continued resurrection of several forgotten and neglected titles by John Carpenter (which included recent Blu-ray released of Village of the Damned, Memoirs...
Tuesday Blus: Come Up w/Fleas for Donaldson’s Sleeping Dog (1977)
Director Roger Donaldson is one of those mainstream minded filmmakers whose body of work quickly and quietly dispelled his Australian origins. His glossy Hollywood...
The Commuter | Review
Herrings on a Train: Neeson Fights the Good Fight in Half-Baked Transportation Thriller
You can see him in Berlin (Unknown, 2011), or see his...
Sweet Country | Review
Once Upon a Time in Australia: Thornton’s Western-inspired Saga of Violent Racial Discrimination
Racial tensions in Australian society are given historic treatment in the outback-Western...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Taika Waititi's connection with the Sundance Film Festival has been a longstanding one. His constantly evolving funny bone swagger (aided and abetted alongside muse...
Wenders Retrospective: Until the End of the World | Review
Pray for the Wounded Planet: Wenders’ Belabored Road Trip to the Apocalypse
The troubled production and following critical ambivalence towards Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until...
A Long Way Down | Review
Lost in Translation: Chaumeil’s English Language Debut a Wretched Operation
While his 2010 feature debut, Heartbreaker, which starred Vanessa Paradis and Romain Duris, managed to...