Posts Tagged ‘Jeremy Strong’
Film Review – The Social Reckoning
Aaron Sorkin’s fascination with Mark Zuckerberg and the online behemoth that is Facebook continues with The Social Reckoning (2026). Of course, we cannot talk about this film without talking about Sorkin’s Oscar-winning work in The Social Network (2011). In that, we saw a young Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) create the platform and…
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Film Review – The Apprentice
Imagine taking the scene between Matthew McConaughey and Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) – in which the former gives advice to the latter on how to be a successful stockbroker – and expanding it out to feature length. What you end up with would probably resemble The Apprentice (2024).…
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Film Review – The Trial of the Chicago 7
Writer/director Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) examines the real-life story of seven protestors put on trial following the infamous riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Those accused of inciting violence came from different parts of the country…
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Film Review – The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie is a prolific screenwriter and director. He has a style that is unmistakably original in some of his films. Surprisingly (at least for me), the recent live-action Aladdin (2019) is also one of his films. Ritchie is not afraid to take chances and divert…
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Film Review – The Judge
Watching The Judge proves to be a singularly frustrating experience. On the one hand, the film features an array of some of the finest film actors possible, who are all doing yeoman-like work and create genuine chemistry. Unfortunately, all of that great work is torpedoed…
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