Feb 2, 2016
Film Review: Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Flawed in its execution but anchored by two powerful and subtle performances by Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro, Things We Lost in the...
Jan 29, 2016
Film Review: Sicario (2015)
Darker and more nuanced than your standard Hollywood crime thriller, Sicario explores the murky, lawless barbarism on both sides of the...
Jan 22, 2016
Film Review: About Time (2013)
By perennial rom-com writer/director Richard Curtis, About Time is a cynicism-free movie about a young man who uses his inherited powers...
Jan 15, 2016
Film Review: The Revenant (2015)
The much-anticipated adaptation of Micheal Punke’s survival story of the same name, The Revenant stars Leonardo DiCaprio as weathered...
Jan 8, 2016
Film Review: Legend (2015)
Part family drama and part crime thriller, Legend tracks the rise and fall of 1960s London’s notorious gangster twins, Ronnie and Reggie...
Jan 1, 2016
Film Review: Frank (2014)
Co-written by journalist Jon Ronson (best known for the book-turned-movie-adaptation, The Men Who Stare at Goats), Frank follows Jon...
Dec 25, 2015
Film Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Disclaimer: I’m not a Jedi-level Star Wars fan but I’ve seen all the films and I re-watched the original trilogy some weeks before going...
Dec 18, 2015
Film Review: A Most Violent Year (2014)
The year 1981, which is the setting of A Most Violent Year, was one of the most dangerous times in the history of New York City as...
Dec 4, 2015
Film Review: Hot Fuzz (2007)
As the protagonist of director Edgar Wright’s action-comedy movie, Hot Fuzz, Sgt. Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is the best cop in London....
Nov 27, 2015
Film Review: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
Brilliant, glacial, cerebral, meticulous, and complex are all words that can describe this Cold War thriller, based on the 1974 John le...
