Posts Tagged ‘Benicio Del Toro’
Film Review – Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Sicario (2015) was a masterful thriller made in a post 9/11 world. With Denis Villeneuve’s keen direction, Taylor Sheridan’s focused writing, and Roger Deakins’ impeccable cinematography, the film was a white-knuckled suspense ride. It examined the blurred lines of morality, where characters compromised their beliefs…
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Film Review – Wind River
After penning the fantastic Sicario (2015) and the equally great Hell or High Water (2016), Taylor Sheridan has taken up the directing reigns in Wind River (2017). Tonally, it remains consistent with what Sheridan has been associated with – crime thrillers usually set near the…
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Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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The MacGuffin’s Top 10 Films of 2015
The writers at The MacGuffin all had a favorite film of 2015. The neat thing about writing for a site like this one is that there are many voices and opinions on all different types of films. We don’t all agree on how much we…
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Film Analysis – Land of Wolves (2015)
When I was seventeen, I traveled to Mazatlan, Mexico, for spring break in March of 1998. This wasn’t a quick plane ride with two hundred hormonal college kids to a weeklong boozefest on the beach; rather, I went with a friend and her boyfriend, two…
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Film Review – Sicario
Somewhere between a pulsating, rhythmic soundtrack and Roger Deakins‘ awe-inducing cinematography, there’s an excitement that exists in the idea of something otherly evil that lurks just outside the frame of our view. Since Vietnam, the drug trade has given American audiences a villain of foreign…
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Film Review – Guardians of the Galaxy (Second Take)
The best thing about Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) is the amount of new faces now entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After years of seeing Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and other Avengers take multiple turns at the movie theater, seeing these characters introduced for…
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Episode 253 – Tobey Maguire
In honor of the release of The Great Gatsby, Spencer and Greg discuss Tobey Maguire.
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