Posts Tagged ‘Martin Freeman’
Episode 123 – The Banshees of Inisherin & Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
This week, Keith reviews the new Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Collectively, we review the period dramedy, The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. As for this episode’s streaming homework, we catch up with Baz Luhrmann‘s rock biopic, Elvis. Download the…
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Film Review – Black Panther
Perhaps to acknowledge the ways in which Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther succeeds, it’s first important to recognize the context of its positionality. At this point in the lineage of Marvel Studios’ cinematic universe, we’ve seen over the course of ten years and seventeen films an…
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Film Review – Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) is a classic example of “Tourist Cinema.” We’re led to believe this to be a comedic take on war journalism in Afghanistan circa early 2000s. What we actually get is a self-absorbed story of a privileged white American in the midst…
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Film Review – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Six films, about twenty hours of runtime, spread out over thirteen years. That’s a lot of commitment for Peter Jackson to give one franchise. And for his efforts, he’s delivered two trilogies taking place in the same universe, but different in terms of quality. The…
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Film Review – Oscar Nominated Shorts (Live Action)
This year’s Oscar nominated live action short films are distinguished in many ways; they are in multiple languages, multiple genres and varied length. Though not all of these shorts are as equally deserving of their nomination, they do approach their material with a confident sensibility…
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Film Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
When I was a young boy I had a toy, a thin rubber man in a bright red and blue outfit. He was just a generic toy purchased for less than a dollar somewhere, but when you’d grab his feet and his head or his…
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Film Review – The World’s End
The World’s End is a nostalgia trip. Primarily because this film is the coda to a trilogy that began nearly ten years ago, but also because the film’s subjects are five middle-aged men attempting to recreate, however more triumphantly, a failed pub crawl from twenty…
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Interview – Edgar Wright / Simon Pegg / Nick Frost – The World’s End
Spencer interviews director Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg & Nick Frost from the action comedy The World’s End. This segment is also available on YouTube.
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