Posts Tagged ‘Mads Mikkelsen’
Top 15 Films of 2020 – Allen’s Picks
2020 has been a tough year, to say the least. It seemed everyday something new came and turned our lives upside down. There was racially motivated police brutality that sparked a world-wide reaction, an ugly presidential election in which the ramifications are still coming into…
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Film Review – Another Round
Four guy friends – all high school teachers – gather for dinner to celebrate the 40th birthday of one of their own. The night begins regularly, with each of them engaging in idle chit chat. Things take a turn when we learn that all four share…
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Film Review – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Second Take)
Hey, have you ever sat back and thought: “If the Death Star was such a powerful weapon, why was it so easily destroyed by a couple of blasts down a generator shaft?” Well, lucky for you, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) spends a…
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Film Review – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Second Take)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is Disney’s first foray away from the Star Wars’ Episode films. It is coined as a standalone Star Wars film, but the term is misleading. Rogue One is set timeline-wise after Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and before…
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Film Review – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
“A long, long, long, long time ago…in a galaxy far far away…” The last time we saw our heroes we found out where Luke Skywalker was hiding away, Kylo Ren betrayed his father and a new nemesis is plotting (yet again) to rule the galaxy.…
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Film Review – Doctor Strange
Have audiences reached superhero fatigue? When the screening of Doctor Strange (2016) ended, the audience I was with had a peculiar reaction. Instead of buzzing with excitement over what they’ve just seen, the crowd gathered their things and quietly shuffled out the door. It was…
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Film Review – Far from the Madding Crowd
Sometimes – not all the time, mind you – it’s nice to see a film play a narrative completely straightforward. There are instances where filmmakers will try to paint too far outside of the lines, blinded by their ambition to be different. As a result,…
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SDCC Interview – Scott Thompson & Aaron Abrams – Hannibal
The MacGuffin was a part of the round table interviews for Hannibal that happened after the SDCC panel on Thursday. As a Fannibal, I was pretty ecstatic to be able to interview the cast and crew who were at SDCC.
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