Director Scott Cooper enjoys focusing on the forgotten man, whether he be a washed-up country singer or an underestimated mobster. His films possess a quiet dignity to them that, for many audiences, is introspective. To others, his work comes off…
Movie Review: The Promise
Perhaps this demonstrates a lack of creative initiative, but one would believe that if a director was to tackle a subject as weighty as the Armenian genocide, they would not choose to use it as a backdrop to a schmaltzy…
TIFF Review: The Promise
For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Perhaps this demonstrates a lack of creative initiative, but one would believe that if a director was to tackle a subject as weighty as the Armenian genocide, they would not choose to use…
Movie Review: Knight of Cups
In the Major Arcana of tarot cards, the Knight of Cups has duplicitous meanings depending on how you draw it. The Knight of Cups is a person who is a bringer of ideas, opportunities and offers. He is constantly bored…
The Film Canon: American Psycho (2000)
The film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel “American Psycho” went through a long process of “development hell.” At one time, Oliver Stone was set to direct the film with Leonardo Dicaprio as the lead character, Patrick Bateman. Eventually, the project…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘The Big Short’
In The Big Short, writer/director Adam McKay creates a deliberately dizzying visual aesthetic to imitate the rhetoric involved in many of the banks’ business practices. He postulates that their vague language, confusing double dealings and overall disregard for ethics were the…
Terrence Malick’s Knight Of Cups Has A New Trailer
From the expanse of the Badlands, to the naturally lit wheat fields on an industrialized farm, Terrence Malick has made some of the most visually arresting, soul-stirring, and thematically profound films ever made. In recent years, Malick has shifted his…