You’ll have to forgive me if this is a bit, well, crap. I haven’t really done this before and I’m not too sure how it will come off. I’m also allowing myself to be distracted as I watch Galaxy Quest, an odd choice to some, but it’s one of my favourite Alan Rickman performances, and […] Read more
Opening in wide release in just over a week, director extraordinaire Alejandro Inarritu’s new film The Revenant is a film for the ages. His follow-up film to the Academy Award winning Birdman is one that will surprise people in ways they don’t expect. Set in the early 1800s in the Great Plains of the United […] Read more
After plenty of ups and downs, Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated new film, The Hateful Eight, is finally hitting theaters. Hollywood’s biggest, or at least loudest, cinephile, has made a film combining many of his passions, the west, violence, humor, and Ennio Morricone, into a film that’s bound to divide audiences around the world. Set in […] Read more
A few days ago I watched The Polar Express for the first time. You can see how it went here I then realised there was a slew of many more Christmas ‘classics’ I just hadn’t got round to, so I’ve decided to cross another off my list, Santa With Muscles: Going into the film I […] Read more
To say Michael Moore isn’t the most popular public figure in the media is probably an understatement. That beings said, the man apparently has knack for documentary filmmaking and knows exactly how to further his political agenda and spread his beliefs utilizing film. I’m very familiar with his persona and heavy handed liberal views but, […] Read more
For this very Christmassy feature, we’re doing a whole host of films that we haven’t seen and very cleverly titling it “Haven’t Seen It.” SO, to start strong I picked a film that I really should have seen by now, me being such a Christmas freak and all. All the way back from 2004 (that caveman […] Read more
In a few weeks, László Nemes’ critically acclaimed holocaust film, Son of Saul, will hit theaters. The winner of the Grand Prix award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival has garnered a lot of attention and serious Oscar buzz, making it a film that I had to see. Set in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Son of […] Read more
Writer/director Adam McKay is known for some of the most memorable comedies of the past ten years or so. Known for usually pairing himself with Will Ferrell, the talented McKay ventured off his normal path when he came onboard to help save Ant-Man’s script with Paul Rudd, which came out earlier this year, but now […] Read more
In the Heart of the Sea is being marketed by Warner Bros. as an adventure movie that tells the “true tale” of the whaling ship Essex that inspired Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick. Neither is entirely accurate. In the Heart of the Sea is much more a survival movie about shipwrecked whalers than it […] Read more
As most film fans likely know, each country can submit one film to the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually for consideration for Best Foreign Language Film. This year’s “foreign race” featured 81 entries, including Finland’s The Fencer, a heartfelt movie that was filmed in Estonia about a real-life teacher who made […] Read more
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