Movies can come carefully constructed to elicit emotion and when packaged appropriately can do so. However, when the audience can feel the pull or the mechanics behind the finished product, it becomes less of a thrilling experience. Breathe, the directorial debut of Andy Serkis, contains many a compelling element and is stitched together for maximum
So guys, can we chat about this Oscar season? I don’t know about you but this year feels both weirdly exciting and incredibly dull at the same time. This might just be a product of the fact that this year has been garbage but every time I have tried to edit these Oscar predictions my
Movies can be about ideas, they can be about plot. They can be about characters and mood and images and anything you want them to be. What movies shouldn’t be is an amalgamation of all of these that doesn’t allow the film to rise above. Blade Runner 2049 has some incredible and admirable elements but
Incomprehensible from the first frame and devoid of most of the charm that made the first one such a success, Kingsman: The Golden Circle is just a slog of a film that even the brilliant Pedro Pascal and Taron Egerton can’t make totally enjoyable. The Kingsman franchise is very much all about style from the
So every so often with these Wayback Wednesday pieces, I want to revisit particular film years to see if I still feel the way I once did. This should be a monthly thing and given the myriad of anniversaries that come up, it could be really fun. 2012 was a pretty interesting year for me.
Man, they just don’t make spy thrillers like they used to. American Assassin, the latest and not greatest entry into the pantheon of American spy films, hit cinemas this weekend with some intriguing elements. A new star, a great character actor, a bajillion book series, were all in play to make the movie work. However,