I love epics. Grand sweeping shots of beautiful landscape, stories spanning decades, characters larger than life. I rarely mind the runtime and I love just sitting down on a Sunday afternoon to watch a three- or four-hour movie. Lawrence of Arabia is among my favourite movies ever.
Australia though, was just a little too much. Baz [...]
Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) is getting married, and her sister Kym (Anne Hathaway) is out of rehab for the occasion. Kym’s appearance throws her family into disarray, and everyone is forced to deal with various problems simmering under the surface. Sounds good? It’s really not.
The IMDb synopsis says that the movie “paints a colorful, nuanced family [...]
Clint Eastwood has really become one of the best directors working in Hollywood today. He seems to have a thorough understanding of what works and how to simply tell a story without any overbearing moral lessons or special effects. His movies are subtle, and thoughtful, and really solid. The script was written by J. Michael [...]
Surveillance is a new thriller starring Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond. It’s directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch (daughter of director David Lynch).
Two FBI agents (Pullman, Ormond) arrive in a small town in the middle of nowhere to help catch a serial killer. The movie plays out mostly in the police station as they interrogate three [...]
Hunger relays the true story of the 1981 IRA hunger strike in Northern Ireland. Lead by Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender), this was a strike carried out by the prisoners of the Maze prison in an effort to win political status. It dramatises the events in the prison in the six weeks leading up to Sands’ [...]
To say that Tokyo! is a strange concoction would be to undersell it quite a bit. Three directors here present their own, separate, forty-minute segments — and they’re all inventive and a little bit crazy.
Michel Gondry’s Interior Design is about a young couple having just moved to Tokyo. He is an aspiring filmmaker, she seems [...]
(1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Three weeks ago, I had no idea who Henri-Georges Clouzot was. Now, I've seen two of his movies and both ...
(1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Wow, I am still kind of reeling from the experience of watching this movie. It was extraordinary, and quite unlike ...
(1981, Wolfgang Petersen)
It's not often we get to see "the other side" of a war. Clint Eastwood did it recently with his ...
(1984, Milos Foreman)
Not having seen this has, for many years, been my biggest embarrassment. Truth is, I have seen bits of it, ...
(1931, Fritz Lang)
There are many things to marvel at and be impressed with when it comes to this movie. First of all, ...
(2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
I was probably not alone in being surprised when, about two weeks ago, Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth failed to ...