A Little Chaos, Alan Rickman’s latest film, may not be historically accurate (a gainfully employed woman in the 17th century??), but Glen Falkenstein still manages to find it a lot of fun. “It is deeply historically inaccurate […]
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Sixty Years Of ‘The Seven Year Itch’
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of 20th Century Fox, we list the 50 Best Films from the Hollywood studio in our latest issue. But we kick off the countdown online with Billy Wilder’s subversive comedy […]
Oscar Spotlight: Whiplash
In the lead-up to Hollywood’s night of nights, we look at the dark horse in the Best Picture race and one of the most intense flicks of last year. In one word – unnerving. You […]
Oscar Spotlight: The Imitation Game
In the first of our articles shining a spotlight on a Best Picture nominee, we take a look at the Alan Turing pic, which departs from its “Troubled Male Genius” template just enough to stand […]
Time To Grow Up
Remakes, reboots, prequels, sequels, re-imaginings – the announcement last week of a new Ghostbusters film is one of many seeking to cash in on our childhoods. With the new take featuring an all-female Ghostbusters cast […]
The Giver
In a black and white world where everything is neat and perfect and there are no wars or bickering (it’s on an island in the sky to really drive the point home) Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) lives […]
Everything wrong with ‘Lucy’
There be spoilers ahead. In Luc Besson’s ‘Lucy,’ an unwilling drug mule (Scarlett Johansson) absorbs a stash into her nervous system, unlocks the unknown recesses of her brain and ultimately becomes an omnipresent reality-twisting force. […]
Jersey Boys: Story and Sound
This is not a musical. Neither is Frankie Valli’s life. In 1951 MGM commissioned “Singin’ in the Rain” because Arthur Freed wanted to showcase his catalogue of songs, ordering the screenwriters to strategically work his melodies into […]
Transformers 4: A Bud Light if you please!
This post is not an ad for Bud Light. I can’t say the same for ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction.’ In this CGI-fest a Transformer powers through a large Bud Light truck strategically centered in the middle […]
The Raid 2: Berandal
The Raid is a superbly constructed action film. An Indonesian cop/martial arts master/family man is tasked with raiding a castle-like fortress occupied by criminals waiting to be rewarded for gruesomely killing our hero. On the […]
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