Film review: Brooklyn
“At best, this early 50s Irish emigrant tale rivals any beautiful Hallmark greeting card but the chick flick screenplay remains unabashedly bathetic.” If many men…
Film Review Archives: 11/2015
Film review: ‘Corbo’ directed and written by Mathieu Denis
Terrorism from an unfamiliar perspective. This is a film about the development of a young terrorist, as he moves from a vaguely angry and confused…
Film review: Suffragette
“Informative history of women’s suffrage movement but composite character protagonist is pure agitprop.” For those who are unfamiliar with the history of the women’s suffrage…
Film review: ‘Trumbo’ directed by Jay Roach
Dalton Trumbo, the subject of this film biography, is famous for two things: being regarded as the best and most successful Hollywood screenwriter of all…
Film review: Spectre
It’s standard fare time again for 007. As usual, poker-faced muscle man Daniel Craig acquits himself nicely as James Bond in the stunts department but…
Film review: ‘Remember’ a Canadian-German collaboration directed by Atom Egoyan
In Remember, a Canadian-German collaboration, director Atom Egoyan takes a new direction as far as subject matter, dealing with the few, elderly, remaining victims of…
Paul Dano, John Cusack star as Brian Wilson film ‘Love and Mercy’
Most popular music fans have some idea of Brian Wilson’s life story. After great success as the driving force behind The Beach Boys, he branched…