Following in the footsteps of Scarface and Bronson, Jude Law‘s lead role in Dom Hemingway seems to fit like a glove into the “pissed-off coked-up foreigner” category. Grabbing handfuls of positive buzz out of its TIFF premiere, this dark comedy follows the journey of a safe-cracker on parole in London after doing 12 years of...
Although a screener is sitting in my inbox, I’ve yet to sit myself down to watch this year’s big winner out of Cannes, Blue is the Warmest Color. Partially due to the fact that the film is three hours and partially because the subject matter seems very dour, artsy and indy-oriented, I’m putting it off...
Hot off his newest film Populaire, Shaun Benson and I sat down to discuss his role in this French comedy about a speedy typist and her handsome boss. With a career that blossomed with Katherine Bigelow‘s K19, Benson has gone to on do a variety of high-profile and small-time film projects, participate in various...
While often uncompromisingly bleak, Prisoners ends up as more of a pulpy, often riveting, character study than what we may originally have suspected. The film is just caked in grit,…
Depth was never the goal here and Roinsard scores major points for sticking to his flowery guns. Like similarly woozy Jean-Pierre Jeunet films, it's just a wonder something so fleet-footed,…
From first-time director Peter Landesman comes your one-and-only look at Parkland. While once thought it be a serious player in the field, it received some lackluster reviews out of the Venice Film Festival as well as TIFF. I saw it myself last week and can say that that negativity is not ungrounded. With...
Leonardo DiCaprio may have taken on a high profile biopic role or two before in his back – to varying success – but it seems as if the A-list actor is still keen to do more. After making a comment about retiring some months back, Leo seems to be as hardworking as ever and this...
Thor, Thor, Thor. Trailer, trailer, trailer. Marvel, Marvel, Marvel. Marketing, marketing, marketing. What is there to say that hasn’t already been said before? Just watch the new trailer. If you’ve have been living under a rock, do peruse through first teaser pictures, first trailer, a rather dull poster and this poster showing off the...
Starring Will Forte and Bruce Dern, Nebraska follows a father and son traveling across four states to claim a sweepstakes prize. Shot in black-and-white, Nebraska is only Alexander Payne’s second film since 2004’s critical darling Sideways. In 2011, Payne came out of semi-retirement with a bang, offering up The Descendants, another critically acclaimed work...
Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a bit of a tough go returning to Hollywood after his seven year stint as California governor. His last film, The Last Stand, which pitted him and Johnny Knoxville against a drug cartel only mustered a hair over $12 million domestically on a budget of over $45 mill. Schwarzenegger’s long promised...