Capsule Reviews Capsule Reviews: Personal Shopper; Hounds of Love; Okja; What Happened to Monday; Star Wars: The Last Jedi 15 Dec 201714 Mar 2018 Personal Shopper France. Directed by Olivier Assayas. Starring Kristen Stewart, Sigrid Bouaziz, Ty Olwin, Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lee, Nora von Waldstätten. In case It Comes at Night didn't slake your…
Capsule Reviews Capsule Reviews: November 2017 1 Dec 201710 Jan 2018 Justice League United States. Directed by Zack Snyder. Starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Ciarán Hinds. I like grim, dark cinema as much…
Movie Reviews Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 28 Jan 201613 Nov 2017 United States/United Kingdom. Directed by Burr Steers, 2016. Starring Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Boothe, Matt Smith, Charles Dance, Lena Headey, Suki Waterhouse. 108 minutes. 5/10 The…
Movie Reviews Sicario 1 Dec 201512 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Denis Villenueve, 2015. Starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio del Toro, Jon Bernthal, Victor Garber, Daniel Kaluuya. 121 minutes. 9/10 I can't think of any metric by…
Movie Reviews Self/less 22 Jul 201517 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Tarsem Singh, 2015. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Ben Kingsley, Victor Garber. 117 minutes. Self/less stars Ben Kingsley as Damien Hale, a dying New York real estate…
Movie Reviews The Guest 19 Jan 20157 Nov 2016 United States, 2014. Directed by Adam Wingard. Starring Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley, Leland Orser. 100 minutes. Filmmaker Adam Wingard began his career making so-called "mumblegore" films…
Movie Reviews Snowpiercer 22 Sep 201418 Oct 2016 South Korea. Directed by Joon-ho Bong, 2013. Starring Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Tilda Swinton. 126 minutes. Of all the possible ways the tattered remnants of humanity could survive a global Hoth-pocalypse,…
Movie Reviews Oldboy 26 Aug 201418 Oct 2016 United States. Directed by Spike Lee, 2013. Starring Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlo Copley, Samuel L. Jackson. 103 minutes. Remaking Oldboy in English is an odd proposition. The original garnered critical…
Movie Reviews Attack the Block 19 May 20144 Nov 2017 United Kingdom. Directed by Joe Cornish, 2013. Starring John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Alex Esmail. 88 minutes. 8/10 Bonfire Night in the South London district of Brixton. Nurse Samantha Adams (Jodie Whittaker), returning to…
