It’s been a year since The Old Guard gave us gay immortal warriers and an endlessly rewatchable action film on Netflix. Director Gina Prince-Bythewood took Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández‘s graphic novel series (Rucka also serves as screenwriter for the…
The Old Guard Review: An action film with depth
The Old Guard is a surprising film in that it subverts expectations, carrying with it a burden as old as its leading characters. That burden is never shed, but it works to add a depth that most action films have…
‘The Mustang’ Review: A Prisoner and His Horse Tread Familiar Ground | Sundance 2019
In the opening moments of The Mustang, we observe a group of wild horses resting on a sprawling western plain in an almost eery silence. The scene is jolted, however, when a helicopter swoops in to corral the creatures into…
Red Sparrow Movie Review: An Exploitative Spy Thriller
Red Sparrow reunites Jennifer Lawrence with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence in this attempt at a sexy spy thriller. I use the term “sexy spy thriller” very, very loosely. A spy thriller it can be. Sexy, however,…
Movie Review: ‘A Bigger Splash’
Celebrities must cherish their privacy, something the majority of us take for granted. The film opens in a cutaway shot, a singer greets a roaring crowd, thousands of eyes on her, switch to the same singer in a quiet romantic…
Movie Review: ‘Disorder’
Disorder (or its French title, Maryland) seems to be a third in an increasing number of films that feature the talented Belgian star, Matthias Schoenaerts, in physically morose but deeply sympathetic roles of misunderstood tough-guys, tamed by their affection for…
Movie News: First Trailer for Oscar Hopeful The Danish Girl
September is here which means that while I’m still kicking sand off of my shoes we’re also officially into the overlong but irresistible Oscar season as the big festival juggernauts begin to hit the ground running. Today we saw the…