Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci It is remarkable how time and experience shape the way storytellers view certain genres. Martin Scorsese has made far more movies outside of the crime genre over his 50-year career, and yet he consistently returns to the worlds of criminals and gangsters. No two…
Director: Deborah Chow Starring: Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers and Werner Herzog WARNING: Potential SPOILERS for The Mandalorian Episode 3 in this review. The Mandalorian has proven to be one of the TV events of the year, and frankly, it’s no wonder it has, and with The Mandalorian Episode 3, called The Sin, the show starts…
Director: Steph Green Starring: Regina King, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson and Jeremy Irons Watchmen Episode 5, entitled Little Fear of Lightning, is all about Tim Blake Nelson’s Wade Tillman, otherwise known as Looking Glass. His character is one of the most interesting characters in the show. The first time you meet him, your brain…
Director: Frank Capra Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Ward Bond, Frank Faylen and Gloria Grahame When you think of Christmas, what’s the first film that jumps into your head. For me, it’s always been one: It’s A Wonderful Life (closely followed by Die Hard, but let’s not…
Director: Andrij Parekh Starring: Regina King, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Hong Chau, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jeremy Irons Who watches the Watchmen…? Answer: everybody should be. Watchmen on HBO is easily one of, if not the best, TV show on TV at the moment, and Episode 4, called ‘If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own’,…
Director: Rick Famuyiwa Starring: Pedro Pascal and Nick Nolte The Mandalorian Episode 1, called simply Chapter One, was a lot of fun and was just as good as I had hoped it would be. Yet, that didn’t stop people from writing some negative reviews about the first episode of this new Disney Plus Star Wars…
Director: James Mangold Starring: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Caitriona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas and Noah Jupe Le Mans 66 (or Ford v Ferrari in the US) feels at home on the big screen. It’s where this story always belonged. On the biggest possible screen. Why, you ask? Because this is an incredible…
Director: Dave Filoni Starring: Pedro Pascal, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte, Taikia Waititi, Carl Weathers The Mandalorian is finally here – unless you like outside of the US, Canada and The Netherlands – as the very first episode, Episode 1, of this brand new Star Wars show lands on Disney Plus. This has easily been one…
Director: Stephen Williams STARRING: JEAN SMART, REGINA KING, DON JOHNSON, TIM BLAKE NELSON, YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II, ANDREW HOWARD, JACOB MING-TRENT, TOM MISON, SARA VICKERS, DYLAN SCHOMBING, LOUIS GOSSETT JR. AND JEREMY IRONS SPOILERS: There are SPOILERS for Watchmen Episode 3 in this review. “Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.” Watchmen Episode 3, called…
DIRECTOR: PHIL ABRAHAM STARRING: JOHN KRASINSKI, WENDELL PIERCE, NOOMI RAPACE, JORDI MOLLÀ, MICHAEL KELLY AND TOM WLASCHIHA WARNING: SPOILERS for Jack Ryan Season 2 Episode 2 in this review! Things are really heating up in Venezuela in Jack Ryan Season 2 Episode 2, called Tertia Optio. The episode see’s John Krasinski back as the CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, and he’s now…
Director: Phil Abraham Starring: John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Noomi Rapace, Jordi Mollà, Michael Kelly and Tom Wlaschiha WARNING: SPOILERS for Jack Ryan Season 2 Episode 1 in this review! Jack Ryan Season 1 was one of my biggest surprises of last year. I really didn’t expect to enjoy it, but John Krasinski was just so…
DIRECTOR: NICOLE KASSELL STARRING: REGINA KING, DON JOHNSON, TIM BLAKE NELSON, YAHYA ABDUL-MATEEN II, ANDREW HOWARD, JACOB MING-TRENT, TOM MISON, SARA VICKERS, DYLAN SCHOMBING, LOUIS GOSSETT JR. AND JEREMY IRONS SPOILERS: There are SPOILERS for Watchmen Episode 2 in this review. Watchmen Episode 1 had us intrigued. Now Watchmen Episode 2 has us thoroughly hooked….
Director: Nicole Kassell Starring: Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Andrew Howard, Jacob Ming-Trent, Tom Mison, Sara Vickers, Dylan Schombing, Louis Gossett Jr. and Jeremy Irons SPOILERS: There are SPOILERS for Watchmen Episode 1 in this review. HBO’s Watchmen has finally arrived and after watching episode 1, I couldn’t help but…
Director: Mike Flanagan Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis When I first heard that Mike Flanagan was going to be making Doctor Sleep, the sequel to Stephen King’s book The Shining and Stanley Kubrick’s film of the same name, I couldn’t wait to see it. I firmly believe that Flanagan is one…
Director: Craig Brewer Starring: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Wesley Snipes Dolemite Is My Name comes from Hustle And Flow’s director, Craig Brewer and tells the story of filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, who’s best known for having portrayed the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up comedy…
Director: Robert Eggers Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe In the late 19th century, a man by the name of Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) is sent to serve a contract as a lighthouse keeper along with his supervisor Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) for four weeks on a remote island. Robert Eggers’ 2016 directorial debut The Witch…
Director: Rian Johnson Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, Christopher Plummer Knives Out is the work of writer/director Rian Johnson, the man who gave us Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and who many Star Wars fans want to…
Director: Todd Philipps Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz When it was revealed that Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Comics had greenlit a standalone Joker movie, I was slightly suspicious. I didn’t feel that the character needed to be revisited after Heath Ledger’s turn as the infamous DC Comics villain. And after having…
“When people get desperate, the knives come out.” This is the line that stuck out the most to me in the new trailer for Rian Johnson’s upcoming murder mystery thriller, Knives Out. Already this film looks brilliant on paper. The writer/director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Brick and Looper. A frankly ludicrously talented cast,…
Director: David Leitch Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Cliff Curtis and Helen Mirren Ok, so answer me this question: how can you make a huge summer blockbuster hit and it not be tied to a superhero property? Answer: get Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in a movie together and tie it…
