Posts Tagged ‘Fargo’
Film Review – Tollbooth
On its surface, Tollbooth (2021) has a lot going for it. Written by Matt Redd and directed by Ryan Andrew Hooper (in their feature-length debuts), this is a comedic crime thriller set in an interesting location with several colorful characters. All the participants operate in their own separate little stories and…
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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 – No Sudden Move
No Sudden Move (2021) is a terrific, pulp-noir throwback. It displays tight precision in front of and behind the camera, managing a rollercoaster of a plot. In lesser hands, this could have crumbled into messy incoherence. But in the hands of experienced professionals, it maintains…
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Film Review – The Lie
The distribution deal between Blumhouse and Amazon Studios involves the streaming release of four thrillers in the month of October, labeled “Welcome to The Blumhouse.” The release schedule groups them into pairs. The first two feature the excellent Black Box (2020) and the not so…
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Film review – The Sisters Brothers
How far would you go to protect your brother? Risk life and limb, you say? What if said brother were a perpetual troublemaker with a fondness for (constant) booze and a dangerous temper? To what lengths do you go? The Sisters Brothers examines this quandary…
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Film Review – Suburbicon
There are two conflicting stories taking place in Suburbicon (2017), and while both have some merit on their own, together they create an imbalance that doesn’t pay off. Is this a black comedy? Is it a murder mystery? Is it a social satire? By dipping…
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Interview – Douglas Henshall – Shetland
I recently spoke with Douglas Henshall who plays DI Jimmy Perez on the series Shetland. Shetland is a series based on the novels by Ann Cleeves. It is a crime drama set in the secluded island of Shetland, Scotland. The series follows Perez as he…
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Film Review – Cop Car
Children-in-peril films can be played for laughs (paging Kevin McCallister), but are most often reserved for thrillers. What’s more harrowing, after all, than the thought of your young son or daughter disappearing or falling into the hands of a crazed lunatic? Cop Car, Jon Watts‘…
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