The Alto Knights Movie Review
Into this world of titans, steps Barry Levinson with The Alto Knights and frankly it’s all a bit of a mess. Some of the calamities come from concepts that don’t connect and storytelling that lacks that visceral edge. Concept-wise having Robert De Niro play the two main leads with only bad make-up to distinguish between the two doesn’t work at all. It also causes a bit of confusion as to who is whom.
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Storytelling-wise, even though it is based on a true story ...
Silent Zone Movie Review
Cassius (Matt Devere) is the perfect Bear Grylls type for the coming apocalypse, all outfitted with weapons a plenty and great survival instincts. Earlier on he saves Abigail (Luca Papp) from her mother and younger brother after they turn into zombies. We then catch up with them a decade later as their survival skills are almost fully developed.
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Cassius lives with casual cruelty and isolation quite easily while Abigail still yearns for the human connection. This ...
Black Bag Movie Review
It all starts with a submerged storyline and while you feel an undercurrent of skulduggery nothing obvious rises to the surface for quite some time. It might even be a tad tardy for those who desire overdriven onscreen action from the go as the genre is often known for those big loud openers. Soderbergh is such an established auteur and he plays to his strengths here including his usual star-studded cast.
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You get several James Bond alumni like Pierce Brosnan (the ...
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. Movie Review
Born into a well-off and large family in Germany (in a city now part of Poland), his father Karl, was a psychiatrist and neurologist and his mother Paula was a teacher. Dietrich was a very intelligent child and ultimately became a theologian. Not all the members of his family agreed with his decision. At 21 years old he completed his Doctorate of Theology from Humboldt University in Berlin.
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As played by German actor Jonas Dassler, he is presented as the perfect ...
Hard Truths Movie Review
Pansy Deacon is a depressed and anxious woman trapped in a loveless marriage and suffering deep scars from childhood trauma. She is played with absolute conviction by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Her husband Curtly (David Webber) is emotionally stilted and can barely mumble more than a few words at a time. Her son Moses (Tuwaine Barrett) is also scarcely conscious and shuffles through his young life.
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Pansy is so relentlessly unpleasant to everyone she meets, if it was ...
Inside Man Movie Review
Bobby Belucci (Emile Hirsch) is a New York cop with anger issues and a failing marriage. After he catches his wife Mary (Ashley Greene ) having an affair, he beats the poor man bloody. He is soon stripped of his detective duties and assigned to a desk. One night while out drinking he runs into Chris (Jake Cannavale) who is being attacked in a bar. He beats Chris’s assailant and thus forms a relationship with the criminal.
He asks his Police Captain Rick (Bo Dietl) to let him use this ...
Mickey 17 Movie Review
Parasite was released in 2019 and since then he has been busy with the excellent television series Snowpiercer but now he returns to the big screen with Mickey 17 and what a return it is! Set in a dystopian future with so many elements that mirror our present-day race into the abyss, the film vividly illustrates that his imagination and craft are as fertile as ever as is his socially biting commentary.
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Robert Pattinson as the title character expands his craft and ...
I’m Still Here Movie Review
Plunged Into this maelstrom, we are introduced to the Paiva family who lead an idyllic life style living in a large house by the seaside in Rio de Janeiro. The patriarch of the family Rubens (Selton Mello) is a former congressman who now earns a good living as an architect. One night a group of men come to the house and take him into custody and whisk him away to parts unknown.
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The structure of the film puts you in the same situation as the family and you are ...
The Last Journey Movie Review
Filip and his friend Fredrik Wikingsson (self) plan an elaborate road trip to help Lars rekindle his love for life. This includes buying an old Citroen 4 car previously used in family trips and retrace the journey from Sweden to Lars’ favourite spot on earth along the coast in France. Things do not start well.
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After an initial reluctance to hit the road, Lars agrees but soon suffers a fall and becomes hospitalised with a broken bone. This puts the trip on hold ...
The Monkey Movie Review
The character in question is a toy monkey who once wound up plays the drums but this rhythmic interlude has a downside and one with fatal consequences. And those vivid fatalities are so imaginatively and comically staged, they almost defy description. You are quarantined to laugh out loud whether you like it or not.
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Let’s put it this way if you applied the drinking game rules to every death scene in this film you would be absolute blotto before the end of the ...
