Film Review: The Salvation (2014)
byA Danish western is something you don’t see everyday, and this is perhaps the only unique aspect of The Salvation, directed by Kristian Levring….
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Film Review: Unbroken (2014)
byA-list movie star, mother of six, humanitarian, director. Is there anything Angelina Jolie can’t do? In her first English-language feature film, she proves yet…
Film Review: Birdman (2015)
byBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a visceral, voracious film. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu, who wrote the screenplay along with Nicolás Giacobone,…
Film Review: Taken 3 (2015)
byThankfully, this time no one gets abducted, apparently due to Liam Neeson’s request that the film go in a different direction. This being the…
Film Review: Into the Woods (2014)
byStrange things happen in the woods. At any given moment in Rob Marshall‘s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine‘s musical Into the Woods,…
Film Review: The Imitation Game (2014)
by“Sometimes it is the people no-one imagines anything of who do the things no-one can imagine.” Thus is the theme for director Morten Tyldum’s…
Film Review: Big Hero 6 (2014)
byThis year’s obligatory Boxing Day animated release is Disney’s Big Hero 6, based on the Marvel comic of the same name. Upping the cute…
Film Review: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
byA few years have passed since the Battle of the Smithsonian and Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is successfully disguising his wax figures coming to…
Film Review: Mr. Turner (2014)
byIn his biography of the early nineteenth century painter J.M.W. Turner acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh not only crafts a rich and textured portrayal of…
Film Review: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
byChevy Chase returns as Clark Griswald in the third instalment of the National Lampoon’s Vacation series.