Posts Tagged ‘Joel Kinnaman’
Film Review – Sympathy for the Devil
If there is one thing Nicolas Cage cannot be accused of, it’s taking a role for granted. Whether it’s a big budget blockbuster or a straight to video indie, Cage cannot operate at any level other than 200%. That’s what makes him so compelling – he takes…
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Episode 79 – The Suicide Squad & The Green Knight
For this podcast episode, we return with reviews for James Gunn‘s violent superhero comedy, The Suicide Squad. We also review A24‘s dark fairy-tale adaptation, The Green Knight. We catch up with the movie news, and for our streaming homework, we discuss David Lynch‘s 1999 family…
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Film Review – The Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad (2021) is an exuberant, violent, and hilariously goofy superhero romp. It acts as an excellent course correction from the abysmal Suicide Squad (2016) and demonstrates – once again – that Warner Brothers and DC are willing to give their filmmakers more wiggle room with these…
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Film Review – Suicide Squad
Spencer and Greg Upton (formerly of the Backroom Comics Podcast) take a look at the latest chapter in the DC cinematic universe, Suicide Squad, from director David Ayer and starring Will Smith & Margot Robbie.
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SDCC 2015 – Suicide Squad
Hall H on Saturday at SDCC had a plethora of film studios presenting new trailers and footage for hyped projects. One of those was Warner Brothers’ Suicide Squad. For some studios, they will show trailers that are designed to only be shown at SDCC. It…
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Top 10 of 2012 – Ed’s Picks
2012 was a terrific year at the movies. 2010 and 2011 both felt a little underwhelming at the time. There was some good work, to be sure, but the amount of work that felt new or exciting was less and less. However, this last year…
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Film Review – Easy Money
Sweden has really been supplying some taught and exciting thrillers as of late. The newest example is the exciting Easy Money. Joel Kinnaman, known best in the U.S. for his lead role on AMC’s The Killing, stars as J.W. He’s a smart, slightly shy genius…
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SIFF Film Review – Lola Versus
Of all the films released so far this year, it is surprising to me to see that one of the biggest uproars has been generated in the last couple weeks over Lola Versus. I’m not going to argue that it is a masterpiece, but it…
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