Capsule Reviews Capsule Reviews: Get Out; Dunkirk; Good Time 1 Jan 201814 Mar 2018 Get Out Directed by Jordan Peele. Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, LilRel Howery, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, Lakeith Stansfield, Stephen Root. One of…
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…
Chicago International Film Festival… Chicago International Film Festival 2017: Offenders / Have a Nice Day 27 Oct 201722 Nov 2017 My third and final clump consisted of two World Cinema offerings: Offenders and Have a Nice Day. Offenders (Izgrednici) Serbia. Directed by Dejan Zecevic. 107 minutes. The CIFF program described Offenders as a…
Movie Reviews Hell or High Water 10 Jan 201722 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by David Mackenzie, 2016. Starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham. 102 minutes. Roughly halfway through Hell or High Water, Alberto Parker---a Texas Ranger of mixed…
Chicago International Film Festival… Chicago International Film Festival 2016: Part Two 27 Oct 201622 Nov 2017 As promised, here are my capsule reviews of the two films I saw during the second half of CIFF 2016: Prevenge, a particularly dark horror-comedy written and directed by Alice…
Movie Reviews Mojave 21 Jan 201612 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by William Monahan, 2015. Starring Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund, Mark Wahlberg, Louise Bourgoin, Walton Goggins, Fran Kranz. 93 minutes. 2/10 What makes for good film writing? A solid narrative…
Movie Reviews Legend 7 Dec 201512 Nov 2017 United Kingdom/France. Directed by Brian Helgeland, 2015. Starring Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Christopher Eccleston, Chazz Palminteri. 131 minutes. 7/10 So once upon a time there were these twin brothers who…
Movie Reviews Victoria 3 Dec 201512 Nov 2017 Germany. Directed by Sebastian Schipper, 2015. Starring Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff. 138 minutes. 4/10 I find myself asking the question: when is a movie gimmick not a gimmick?…
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…
Fantastic Fest… Fantastic Fest 2015: Wrap-up 4 Oct 201510 Oct 2016 Note to those who have been following my Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage: there isn't any new content in this post, this is just the "Best Of" and Ranking segments broken…
