Russell Crowe tries to leave an overcrowded party.
Formerly titled Bear Country, Derrick Borte’s The Get Out arrives with a premise that sounds deceptively simple: a nightclub owner decides he has had enough and decides to get out of the business.…
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REVIEW: The Mummy shows a cinematic universe unravelling before it’s even begun
How do you get a mummy film wrong?
By making it part of a calculated attempt to get a franchise off the ground What Universal could have learned, however, from any of the mad scientists in their catalogue, is the danger of hubris when it comes to this not-so-new world of God’s and monsters.…
The Nice Guys is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with a fun ’70s retrofit
The Nice Guys is your standard Shane Black neo-noir buddy comedy with a ’70s retrofit but that’s no bad thing.
The film is a wild and seedy ride from the top of the derelict Hollywood sign, through — occasionally literally — the deluxe shag pads of Beverly Hills, and all the way down through the mean streets of L.A.
Noah will have you in floods (of something)
When you think of marketable movie types, you probably think rom-com or superhero movie.
It’s unlikely your mind would go straight to Biblical epic. Cinematic tales of lions, Christians, and Roman arenas went out with Cecil B. DeMille.
Then again, to those long awaiting a resurgence, Darren Aronofsky is certainly a promising choice of director.…
Les Miserables: Faith, grace, mercy, and music (and getting a head in Revolutionary France)
You know that sometimes you leave the cinema struggling to articulate exactly what it is that you’ve just seen?
Those are my feelings regarding Les Miserables, the adaptation of Cameron Mackintosh’s blockbuster musical, directed by Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech).…