Film Review

Nightcrawler, the amazing directorial debut for writer-director Dan Gilroy, could best be described as a ‘guilty pleasure,’ in that the film’s protagonist, Lou Bloom, is far…

After his big success with ‘The Great Beauty’, Paolo Sorrentino is back with an English language version of essentially the same story. In place of…

Spotlight, the newly released film by director Thomas McCarthy, is receiving a great deal of critical acclaim, along with nominations for multiple film awards. It…

Director Tim Hooper, responsible for the excellent Oscar winner ‘The King’s Speech’, is now back with a much more obscure but fascinating historical tale, ‘The…

For this review, I’m prepared to fight above my weight class, and try to deal with a classic art film which has appeared on every…

If you’ve already seen The Departed, Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-winning film loosely based on the Whitey Bulger story or the excellent documentary by Joe Berlinger,…

“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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

A review.