US writer-director Brian Helgeland (A Knight’s Tale) evokes an elegantly detailed and extremely dangerous 1960s London as he depicts the thorny and short-fused lives of East End underworld rulers and twin brothers, Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Helgeland, who is perhaps best known for writing and receiving an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for L.A. Confidential […]
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20 Great Siege Movies That Are Worth Your Time
Certainly one of the most satisfying and exciting cinematic scenarios is the siege picture. Combining fast-paced action sequences and unforeseeable circumstances, the siege motif emerges in a number of different genre categories; action, comedy, drama, horror, science fiction, you name it. As satiating as it is protracted and impassioned these films invariably target an individual […]
Movie Review: Suffragette (2015)
“You want me to respect the law? Then make the law respectable,” spits a frustrated Maud Watts, played with equal parts tenderness and tenacity by Carey Mulligan (An Education, Shame) in Sarah Gavron’s pulse-pounding period drama, Suffragette. Maud is a fictional working-class mother and laundress in London’s East End, who in 1912 finds herself swept […]
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30 Great Detective Movies That Are Worth Your Time
A graven image from the first moments of film, the detective was an archetypal hero from the hard-boiled school seminary of crime stories and early cinema through to present day. Sometimes referred to as a private eye, a peeper, a gumshoe, shamus, dick or a sleuth, and usually an embodiment of über male machismo, detective […]
Movie Review: The Final Girls (2015)
It’s an even-handed and accurate assumption that today, in 2015, the idea of a meta, self-aware horror comedy set largely at a summer camp sounds about as fresh and flavorful as an uneaten ambrosia salad from last month’s Rotary Club potluck. And yet the latest feature from director Todd Strauss-Schulson (A Very Harold & Kumar […]
Movie Review: Crimson Peak (2015)
“Ghosts are real, this much I know,” admonishes our narrator, the American heiress and wannabe author Edith Cushing, played with punch by Mia Wasikowska (Stoker, Maps to the Stars). Edith is the imperiled ingenue in Guadalajara, Mexico fabulist Guillermo del Toro’s (The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth) latest creepfest, the old line Gothic horror film Crimson […]