Posts Tagged ‘Carey Mulligan’
Film Review – Shame
In modern society, technology has made privacy something of a rarity. Even if you choose not to participate in the hubbub of social networking and other various internet activities, chances are something about you is somewhere online. Privacy is something society has cherished for a…
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Film Review – Drive (Second Take)
In creating the mood for the film Drive, Ryan Gosling shows his character’s driving skills early, as well as the calm of his character in intense situations, his fast thinking and movements of the vehicle, and how he handles problems that arrive—knowing that the audience…
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Film Review – Drive
It is a rare ability for a film to both rely on a sense of nostalgia and simultaneously introduce something new that is its own. Drive, a neo-noir thriller from director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, Valhalla Rising), is a perfect example of one of those…
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Anticipating Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive”
It is always hard to tell in a given year what is going to be a good film. I have a notoriously bad track record for predicting what movies I will end up loving. The trailer and the premise of the movies are always misleading…
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Top 5 – Sci-Fi Films (Nerd Rebuttal)
Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5′s segment. This time Ed and Ben give the nerd rebuttal to the top 5 Sci-Fi films picked by Brandi and Allen.
READ MOREFilm Review – Never Let Me Go
Based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, directed by Mark Romanek, the new film Never Let Me Go is a strange and tightly drawn character study about Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy, three kids who start out in the same boarding school in the English countryside.…
READ MOREFilm Review – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
In 1987, Gordon Gekko famously told us that greed was good. Flash forward to the present, and it appears that greed has turned in to the norm. With director Oliver Stone’s film Wall Street (1987), he presented us with a cautionary tale about the risks…
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