[Because so much of the impact of Gone Girl is based on its plot twists, I will refrain from spoiling anything that has to do with the major plot twists.] Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) is an out-... Read more
Films that are character studies often succeed or fail on how insufferable a viewer finds the main character. Though films obviously don’t have to necessarily be about “likeable” characters,... Read more
The oddest thing about A Walk Among the Tombstones, which is written and directed by Scott Frank and is based on the 1992 Lawrence Block novel, is that the trailers would have you believe it... Read more
Terry Gilliam is among the most visionary filmmakers of all time, and The Zero Theorem is his first feature since 2009’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was only partially f... Read more
It’s been about nine years since Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City took theaters by storm, offering a brand new kind of cinematic experience, one that felt like a living and breat... Read more
Ten years ago if you asked someone who George Takei was the likely response would be, “the guy who was Sulu on Star Trek.” While that remains Takei’s best-known role, since... Read more
The Inbetweeners 2 crashed into cinemas just a couple of days ago across the UK and it’s fair to say it’s just as funny as the first but perhaps lacking a little in story. Direct... Read more
There just aren’t enough films out there about men getting wasted and wild shenanigans taking place. Okay, perhaps there is, but there aren’t enough that do it right. Luckily, Ir... Read more
If you’re a fan of James Cameron there’s a good chance you know that he’s an adventurer and a lover of technology but you may not have known that he has an undying love of the diving and the... Read more
The 1957 David Lean war epic The Bridge on the River Kwai is a cinema classic, but it is a fictionalized and sanitized version of the torturous conditions Allied prisoners of war endured whi... Read more
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