Posts Tagged ‘The Weinstein Company’
Film Review – Wind River (Second Take)
Wind River is a film that I chose to not watch the trailer for before seeing the film. I went into it blind, other than hearing a fellow audience member saying it was a crime thriller before it started. The Rotten Tomatoes score was already…
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After penning the fantastic Sicario (2015) and the equally great Hell or High Water (2016), Taylor Sheridan has taken up the directing reigns in Wind River (2017). Tonally, it remains consistent with what Sheridan has been associated with – crime thrillers usually set near the…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Founder
Knowing only of director John Lee Hancock‘s history of treacle-infested biopics (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks) and next to nothing about McDonald’s “founder” Ray Kroc, I walked into The Founder sure I’d be seeing a sparkly piece of glorified Americana. And while the sock-hop…
READ MOREFilm Review – Lion
“What can we all learn from a 5-year-old child?” I can’t even begin to express how much this movie has moved me. Then again, I’m easily moved. The film encompases many universal themes including family, belonging, finding your identity, knowing where you come from and…
READ MOREFilm Review – Carol
When two women meet and fall in love in New York in the late 1940s, societal deviance becomes a search for safety in director Todd Hayne‘s (Safe, Mildred Pierce) latest movie Carol. Based on the novel The Price of Salt and starring Cate Blanchett and…
READ MOREFilm Review – The Hateful Eight
Okay Tarantino fans, here’s my review of The Hateful Eight in a nutshell: If you love Quentin Tarantino, you will probably enjoy this film. If you think his movies are crap, there is nothing here that will change your mind. If you, like me, have…
READ MOREFilm Review – Burnt
Burnt lacks anything worth biting into. We have Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper), former wonder chef who wrecked his life with booze and drugs and now three years later is clean and heading to London, desperate to open a new restaurant and this time earning three stars in a travel…
READ MOREFilm Review – Southpaw
One last fight… One final chance to redeem himself… The need to battle inner demons in the ring… A brutal test of stamina to see if he can go the distance…All of these boxing cliches and more are very present in the new sports drama…
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