Posts Tagged ‘Keira Knightley’
Film Review – Silent Night
***Warning: The following contains minor spoilers*** Ahh, the holidays. It’s that magical time of year when family and friends gather, exchange gifts, eat food, be merry, and experience a global apocalypse. I’m sorry, say that again? Writer/director Camille Griffin’s feature length debut, Silent Night (2021)…
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Film Review – Official Secrets
Official Secrets takes place in the post-9/11 world, one that grows closer to the war on Iraq. What preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq was a vote by the United Nations Security Council to vote in favor of the impending war. There was immense pressure on the…
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Film Review – The Aftermath
The Aftermath is a period drama set in Hamburg, Germany in 1945, five months after many parts of the city were leveled at the end of World War II. James Kent (Testament of Youth) directed the film based on a script by Joe Shrapnel, Anna…
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Film Review – The Nutcracker and The Four Realms
How to create a fairly generic preteen holiday fantasy: Start with a base of a cost effective public domain property, slather in copious amounts of CGI, pepper using the money you saved on originality to hire several talented actors who should know better, stir with…
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Film Review – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
14 years ago Disney released what I will definitively name the best movie in an incredibly specific and narrow genre. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is the best movie based on an amusement park ride. There were many factors in…
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Film Review – Mojave
An angry white man of privilege decides to go the desert to work out some issues when he sparks a cat and mouse rivalry with a drifter in writer, director William Monahan’s Mojave. Best known for his screenplay for The Departed (2006), previously wrote and…
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Film Review – Everest
Everest is three-fourths guide through the unrelenting onslaught of nature and one-fourth regretting the tour. For all its breathtaking footage of the mountain in all its caprice and grandeur, you can’t shake the feeling that the thrill-seekers who traverse its walls and crags have paid…
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2015 Oscar Predictions – Ben’s Picks
The Academy Awards are here again and unlike most years I am actually ready to move on to the next year. Don’t get me wrong, I will watch and get excited and angry depending on the results but most awards are pretty wrapped up except,…
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