Posts Tagged ‘Brendan Gleeson’
Top 15 Films of 2022 – Allen’s Picks
2022 proved to be a transition year for the movies. As Covid restrictions lifted and audiences returned to theaters, studios faced the challenge of deciding what films get wide releases while reserving others for streaming platforms. The result was confusion – should a person make…
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Episode 123 – The Banshees of Inisherin & Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
This week, Keith reviews the new Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Collectively, we review the period dramedy, The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. As for this episode’s streaming homework, we catch up with Baz Luhrmann‘s rock biopic, Elvis. Download the…
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Episode 97 – The Tragedy of Macbeth
For this week’s podcast, we discuss the highs and lows of the Coen brothers‘ body of films and we review Joel Coen‘s solo effort, The Tragedy of Macbeth. We also cover the 1987 brat-pack dramedy, Some Kind of Wonderful for our streaming homework. The hidden…
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Film Review – The Tragedy of Macbeth
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes” Equal parts dark, brooding, beautiful, and haunting, The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) retells William Shakespeare’s doomed tale with striking artistry. “The Scottish Play” has been remade many times before – such as the recent Michael Fassbender/Marion Cotillard vehicle from…
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Film Review – Live By Night
Live by Night marks Ben Affleck’s fourth outing as a director of a feature film. It is also his fourth time as a feature film screenwriter. The film is based on the bestseller by Dennis Lehane who was also the author of Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone. Affleck…
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Film Review – Calvary
Although I have been an atheist for most of my adult life, I went to Sunday school all the time when I was a kid. (Which was kind of weird considering my mom never went to church. But I guess one should never underestimate the…
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Film Review – Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) is one heck of a fun time. No doubt comparisons to other films will be made, as this could be seen as the love child of Groundhog Day (1993) and Starship Troopers (1997). But Director Doug Liman and screenwriters Christopher McQuarrie,…
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Film Review – The Smurfs 2
Ugh, okay. There are certain times with movies when it’s hard to even muster up enough enthusiasm to talk about it longer than a few seconds. Such is the case with The Smurfs 2. Your short and simple review for this film is: Don’t Bother.
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