Posts Tagged ‘Matthew McConaughey’
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).…
READ MOREFilm 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…
READ MOREFilm Review – White Boy Rick
White Boy Rick (2018) has the look and feel of a film that has something interesting to say. But once we dig beneath the surface – beneath the believable aesthetics and convincing performances – we find an empty center. I’m sure the writers (Andy Weiss,…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Dark Tower
Let’s go ahead and generously call Nikolaj Arcel‘s long-gestating The Dark Tower adaptation “minor King.” The potential franchise starter based on Stephen King‘s sprawling series of fantasy novels is nothing if not slight, much to its detriment.
READ MOREFilm Review – The Sea of Trees
Aokigahara is a heavily dense forest located at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Nicknamed “Sea of Trees” or “Suicide Forest,” this area has developed a reputation as a popular site for individuals to attempt suicide. The suicide rate has grown so much that…
READ MOREFilm Review – Everybody Wants Some
If you read the movie trades like a respectable and not at all nerdy human being, you’ve probably heard director Richard Linklater describe his newest film, Everybody Wants Some, as a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused and rejoiced in your not at all dimly…
READ MOREFilm Review – Interstellar
Director and screenwriter Christopher Nolan has reached a level in his film career where he can take huge chances with his original films. Inception is the first example. Its complexity threatens to kill the story and the likability of the film as a whole. You can still get…
READ MORE2014 Oscar Predictions – Ben’s Picks
It’s Oscar time again and it has been a roller coaster of a year with no clear front-runner for best picture and several of the categories ripe for potential upsets. While not as strong a line up of films as last year, there are still…
READ MORE