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OPPENHEIMER Review: Layered, Nuanced Character Study Led by a Brilliant Cillian Murphy
To say, “It’s J. Robert Oppenheimer's world and we just live in it,” might sound facile, glib, or even the punchline to an unfunny, bewildering joke, but it’s as true today as it was on July 16, 1945, the day...
Review: A QUIET PLACE PART II, More of the Same and Different Too
Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Cillian Murphy star in a horror-thriller, written and directed by John Krasinski.
New ANNA: EL PELIGRO TIENE NOMBRE Trailer Owns Its Danger
A new trailer for Luc Besson's Anna: El peligro tiene nombre features new snippets of footage that amps up the action quota nicely. Produced in France and known in the U.S. simply as Anna, the extended title in Spanish means,...
Review: DUNKIRK, Nolan Styles Overwrought War Epic
After a slew of tired franchise entries and superhero tentpoles, the summer finally delivers a truly essential big screen experience. Austere and nerve-racking, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is a bold big-screen gamble that employs an experimental structure and little in the...
Review: FREE FIRE, Bullet-riddled Mayhem From Beginning to End
At about 15 minutes into Ben Wheatley’s sixth feature film Free Fire, it becomes pretty clear we're probably not leaving this room anytime soon. But that is totally cool. This bold storytelling gambit works because Wheatley and his collaborators (notably...
Christopher Nolan's DUNKIRK Teaser: Wow, That's a Lot of Soldiers
The first teaser for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is not about the stars of the movie (including Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Kenneth Branagh) nor about the external forces that left Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain and France surrounded...
Review: IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, Old-Fashioned In The Best Possible Way
Billed as the story that inspired Moby Dick, Ron Howard's adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's National Book Award winner is a shamelessly old-fashioned sea-faring yarn recounting the true story of the Essex, a Nantucket whaleship that sank after being attacked by...
Review: ALOFT, The Tension Between Magic Realism And Harsh Reality
The sense of touch can be tricky to convey in film. A filmmaker must rely upon visually accurate information in order for the spectator to 'feel' the sensation. Touch is very prominent in director and writer Claudia Llosa's Aloft, how...
Martin Scorsese To Exec Produce Ben Wheatley's FREE FIRE
Martin Scorsese has come aboard British director Ben Wheatley's next project, Free Fire, as an executive producer, Screen Daily has revealed. Set in late-70s Boston, the film is the story of two rival gangs, whose rendezvous in a deserted warehouse...
Best Of 2014: Todd's Top Films
Yes, it's that time of year again, time to look back over the previous twelve months and lay out what we liked best of what we saw. The results of ScreenAnarchy's big contributor poll ran yesterday and today I present...
Ben Wheatley Enters The Action Arena With FREE FIRE
What next for Ben Wheatley? With production wrapped on his adaptation of JG Ballard's High Rise the prolific UK auteur will be moving next into the action arena with Free Fire.An original script revolving around a 1978 arms deal gone...
The Many Faces Of Cillian Murphy
This week, Wally Pfister's Transcendence is out in cinemas, and rather than focusing on its famous lead, I thought this to be a splendid opportunity to highlight Cillian Murphy, who plays Agent Buchanan in the film. Cillian Murphy is an...
Berlinale 2014 Review: ALOFT Doesn't Quite Soar
The sense of touch can be tricky to convey in film. A filmmaker must rely upon visually accurate information in order for the spectator to 'feel' the sensation. Touch is very prominent in director and writer Claudia Llosa's Aloft, how...
PERRIER'S BOUNTY UK DVD review
Perrier's Bounty is a strange one. It doesn't seem fair it's largely been ignored, yet at the same time it's a little too obvious why. Director Ian Fitzgibbon (A Film with Me in It) hits all the right beats...
A FILM WITH ME IN IT Director Ian Fitzgibbon Returns With PERRIER'S BOUNTY
I have been very outspoken about my love for Ian Fitzgibbon's black comedy A Film With Me In It and while my love has a lot to do with Dylan Moran's performance in that film, Fitzgibbon's skill behind the camera...
