Tag: peterstraughan

Friday One Sheet: CRIME 101

After the opening credits and marketing from HBO's True Detective, the silhouette/landscape design trope became fairly ubiquitous in movie posters. Noteworthy that the key art for Denis Villeneuve's criminally under seen Enemy kind of got there first. I am generally...

Now Streaming: FROM OLD COUNTRY BUMPKIN TO MASTER SWORDSMAN, THE DINNER TABLE DETECTIVE, LUDWIG

Also: 'North of North' will return, 'Conclave' reigns, mysteries abound.

Review: OUR BRAND IS CRISIS, Politics In A Familiar Nutshell

What an odd little beast! Neither fish nor fowl, the highly-fictionalized Our Brand Is Crisis acknowledges that it was "suggested" by Rachel Boynton's same-titled 2005 documentary. That film, which I have not seen, revolved around two male political strategists --...

The Men Who Stare At Goats review

With a title like this you're either watching a self-indulged socially engaged arthouse flick directed by a mid-thirty year old or a funny, deadpan comedy which is only too aware of its own silliness. Heslov made the latter, which is...