Ron Howard absolutely blew me away with the Niki Lauda and James Hunt movie Rush. Now it’s Director Jame Mangold’s job to weave another legendary racing tale. The story of Ford Vs Ferrari at Le Mans ’66 as Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles go up against the Italians at the most enduring car race…
Surburbicon is a deranged, vile film, and I really enjoyed watching it! In order to get made in our cookie-cutter and grossly homogenized studio-dominated movie landscape, this fucked-up little piece of cinematic depravity could only have been independently produced (it was) by some major creative forces (it was), and while I have no doubt that…
Gus Van Sant’s “death trilogy” started in 2002 with the unique and intimate film, Gerry, kicking off a run of small, super low budget and very internalized pieces of work, which also included 2003’s Elephant and Last Days in 2005 (while similar, 2007’s Paranoid Park isn’t considered part of this unofficial grouping). Certainly not for…
A spectacular and epic showdown, The Great Wall is a fusion of bilingual cinema plunged into a fantasy world of CGI beauty. A new artistic collaboration between Hollywood and China with Zhang Yimou at the helm brings a new dawn of cinema and quite frankly I really, really enjoyed it. The storyline is simple. Matt…
After being plucked from the battlefields of WW2 Europe (Saving Private Ryan) and reawakened on a faraway ice world (Interstellar), Matt Damon is back and in need of rescue once again. Stranded on the red planet after a surface evacuation goes wrong, Mark Watney (Damon) must use all of his mechanical and botanical prowess to…
