Kurt Russell plays Santa Claus in Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles. What more do you need to know? Honestly, that’s the gist of this particular festive tale. There are no gimmicks. There are no hidden twists, nor are there any secret surprises.…
Movie Review: Deepwater Horizon
Many a film has been made of the back of real life tragedies and plenty have been delicately done, utilizing the cinematic art form to convey the sense of loss, triumph and guilt. Peter Berg is a director known for…
Mark Wahlberg deals with disaster in first trailer for Deepwater Horizon
Based on the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Hollywood is cashing in once again on disaster and the effect by the trailer alone is, surprisingly, stirring. Peter Berg isn’t known for doing much in the way of…
Movie Review: ‘The Hateful Eight’
Quentin Tarantino, the only contemporary director of a blaxploitation film, a samurai movie and a Nazi revenge fantasy, baptizes his audiences in blood, rebirthing them through vengeance. But what’s most fascinating about Tarantino’s latest three films – Inglorious Bastards, Django…
Movie Review – ‘Bone Tomahawk’
[Minor Spoilers Ahead] S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk offers a glimpse of the direction American Westerns may have taken if they had bypassed the Revisionist sub-genre and taken all of its cues from Spaghetti Westerns. Equal parts technically brilliant and…