They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for October, 2015
Crimson Peak (2015)
The man at the publishing house looks quite amused when he finishes reading Edith’s manuscript. She’s just written a most unromantic ghost story that she hopes to have published. “Ghosts are a metaphor for the past,” she says, and to us this seems like a simple throwaway statement until we reach the finish line of […]
Sicario (2015)
There’s an effective, quiet pall that hangs over every scene of Sicario, an appropriately nervous sense that we have entered into an atmosphere of death. This is refreshingly new. Movies about federal agents at war with the Mexican drug cartels have a tendency to be very slick and unafraid to get into the messier bits […]
The Martian (2015)
There can’t be a greater story device then that of basic survival. One character battles against the elements as their life hangs by the slender thread solely dependent on their own ingenuity and wit. That’s the crux of Ridley Scott’s adaptation of The Martian, a bold and exhilarating red-blooded adventure about a man stranded on […]
