They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for November, 2016
Jackie (2016)
There is an odd musical cue at the very beginning of Pablo Larrain’s historical drama Jackie that sounds as if it might be more at home in a horror movie. The best way to describe it is to ask you to imagine that the score is imitating an oncoming train. This musical beat plays several […]
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
There is an uneasy dual identity to the whole Harry Potter world that no self-respecting super-fan might ever want to admit. The cute spectacle of mail owls and Bowtruckles have always had to fight for space amid Death Eaters, torture spells and portents of doom fit for a horror show. In the books, it is […]
Arrival (2016)
We have probably all thought about it at one time or another. What would it be like if – or rather when – we are finally visited by an intelligent species from another world? What would be gained once we stopped rattling the sabers and let the brain trust have a crack at trying to […]
Doctor Strange (2016)
Benedict Cumberbatch is one of the rare actors who can pull off smug, self-serious arrogance without pushing you away. It is a fine line that he walks. You know he’s the smartest guy in the room, the guy who stands back while others yammer on with petty concerns until he grows tired of their misconceptions […]
