Deepwater Horizon movie review: blood for oil
Immensely intense and suspenseful. Disaster filmmaking at its most gripping, yet there is nothing in the least bit exploitive or sensationalized about it.
Year: 2016
The Magnificent Seven movie review: a dusty, dry husk of a movie
Humorless, rote, clichéd, and entirely unsurprising. Antoine Fuqua attempts to recapture old Hollywood magic — and fails — rather than create his own.
#LFF2016: Down Under, Indivisible, Wild
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
from Pinterest: best name for a winebar ever (London photo)
[This post is not behind the paywall.]
#LFF2016: A Date for Mad Mary, Chasing Asylum, The Dreamed Ones
Quick takes from the 60th London Film Festival, with public screenings from October 5th-16th, 2016.
The Girl with All the Gifts movie review: I believe the children are our future…
Stakes out its own fresh place in an SF subgenre that is well played out, and rehumanizes it ways that are both extraordinarily moving and deeply unnerving.
from Pinterest: fancified bike (London photo)
[This post is not behind the paywall.]
from Pinterest: the lobby of the Ritz (London photo)
[This post is not behind the paywall.]
Finding Altamira movie review: family at the intersection of science and art
Couched in a tale of scientific discovery is a lovely portrait of a father-daughter relationship grounded in intellect and curiosity, a rare thing onscreen.
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years documentary review: yeah yeah yeah
There’s not a lot new here, but the vintage footage is fab, as is the much-needed reminder that the supposedly innocent past was hardly innocent at all.
