Film Review: Fist Fight (2017)
The setting is the final day of a lower class public high school, the stars are Charlie Day and Ice Cube, the jokes are…
Film Review: Hidden Figures (2016)
The current fascination with American race relations continues like never before in Oscar season 2017. The pallid white-fest of the previous years climaxed famously…
Film Review: Passengers (2016)
There’s a strange way that an opinion of a film can change once the memories of it have had time to settle. Upon walking…
Film Review: Gimme Danger (2016)
There can’t be many people more revered in the history of rock and roll than Iggy Pop and his band The Stooges. A living…
Film Review: Goodbye Berlin (2016)
One of the biggest German literary successes of the last few years was a young adult novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf. Kind of like a…
Film Review: The Family Fang (2016)
Jason Bateman has had quite the career. Starting out as an actor when he was a young lad of eleven he has been working…
Film Review: The Founder (2016)
There’s an interesting trend with current biopics to depict the shady beginnings of current market empires. There’s The Social Network charting Facebook’s beginnings as a…
Film Review: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
André Øvredal knows how to make a genre film better than nearly anyone else. 2010 saw the beginnings of his international reputation with Trolljegren/Troll…
Review: Royal Shakespeare Company: King Lear (2016)
King Lear, surely one of the most challenging roles that the Bard ever wrote, is not a role lightly undertaken. Playing any of Shakespeare’s…
Film Review: Like Crazy (2016)
Not to be confused with the exceptional 2011 film starring Felicity Jones and Anton Yelchin, Like Crazy (or to use its Italian title, La Pazza…