Wild Horse Nine works as both a character study and a thriller. It also has a touch of the elegiac about it. How does an old spy facing death look back on a lifetime of evil deeds in the service of his country? John Malkovich’s masterful performance gives us a pretty good idea.
De Gaulle: Resistance is a bit over two and a half hours long. I had braced myself for this and laid in supplies of coffee and lollies to prevent the dreaded afternoon sleepies which so often plague me at the cinema, but this mix of wartime and personal drama was so engaging and exciting that when the film ended I was still wide awake and a bit surprised that it was over already.
Coyote vs Acme…..plays with the tropes and the lingo of courtroom dramas, cop shows, political thrillers, horror movies, detective dramas, corporate exposes and buddy movies.
The Rivals of Amziah King has an interesting cultural and landscape setting, but it’s full of plot-holes, and the sometimes nasty violence doesn’t sit well with its mission to be quirky and heartwarming.
This is the slightly modified text of an audio piece made for the literary podcast Tsundoku, ‘Tsundoku’ being […]
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. That’s the philosophy I was […]
Do you have any family words? You know the kind of thing I mean: a child cutely mispronounces […]
The Sheep Detectives works both as a moral fable and as a whodunnit. …
‘…ridiculously skinny scowling models teeter and swagger on dangerously high heels in bikinis and filmy body suits, one topped by a stupid outsize furry hat, another clad in what looks like a cross between a puffer suit and a decompression chamber.’
Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) plays the central character Becket Redfellow in this black crime comedy about a […]