For a film series primarily known for its spunk, it’s a bit shocking to see Matthew Vaughn take his third foray into the Kingsman universe and ring it dry of its bite. What often felt like a direct lampoon of…
Movie Review: The White Crow struggles to be as groundbreaking as its hero
The White Crow, Ralph Fiennes’s ambitious biopic of ballet legend and political dissident Rudolf Nureyev, opens with a title card describing its titular Russian idiom as someone who is “unusual, extraordinary [and] not like others.” The famed dancer, remembered just…
Is Hail, Caesar! Pro or Anti-Hollywood?
One of the defining features of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Hail, Caesar! are its blatant parodic references to Hollywood or, specifically, to Hollywood in the 1950s. Its glamorous, classic Hollwood aesthetic and throwbacks to 1950s cornball cinema begs a certain…
Movie Review: ‘Hail, Caesar!’
Every year that the Coen Brothers release a new movie, I treat it like an event. The duo’s glorious, genre-busting brand of filmmaking has made them one of the best auteurs working today, and they surprise me time and time again for…
Evan’s Movie Review: Spectre
There are very specific things that have made James Bond an iconic character for over 50 years. The world has changed a lot in that time, and so has 007 himself. When you consider the elements of James Bond in…
The Ten Best Moments in the New ‘Spectre’ Trailer
Get ready Bond fans, the new Spectre trailer is here. Returning from their collaboration on Skyfall, director Sam Mendes and lead actor Daniel Craig look to build upon the new order that was established in the previous film. This marks…
SPECTRE – James Bond to Return November 2015
At Pinewood Studios this morning, or afternoon for London I suppose, the director of Skyfall, Sam Mendez came out to greet an audience, in company of Barbara Broccoli, to introduce Bond 24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wYDP7QbxI The film, officially titled SPECTRE, will shortly…