Decisions, the possibility of unforeseen, and devastating consequences resonating long after they are made, are the focus of director Derek Cianfrance’s new film The Place Beyond the Pines, written by Cianfrance, Ben Coccio and Darius Marder.
Films that explore terrorist attacks on America as their central plot line aren’t exactly a rarity these days. Enter action-packed thriller Olympus Has Fallen, directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt.
Swamps, sweat, humidity and crime are the focus of Lee Daniels’ third directorial effort, which takes a curious look at Southern USA in the late…
In many ways, Side Effects is the perfect swan song for Soderbergh. Like many the films in his catalog, it is impeccably made, with the director showing his panache for composition, framing and editing throughout.
Visually alluring and breathtaking, Cloud Atlas is a triumphant piece of filmmaking that left me wanting more. Which is, after all, quite an impressive and rare feat for a film nearly three hours in length.
Those who will be going to see The Last Stand know what they’re in for. Director Jee-woon Kim’s (The Good, the Bad, the Weird, A Tale of Two Sisters) first Western production is a success in this regard, entertaining from start to finish albeit very, very bloody.
If you’re a fan of teenage fiction, especially the supernatural kind, you’ll anticipate the plot as you go along. Intense adolescent love, implied sex scenes that are powerful enough to quite literally start fires, long gazes with no words spoken, not to mention a bottomless bag-full of tricks, spells and special effects, Richard La Gravenese’s adaptation has it all.
Every cloud has a silver lining, or so the well-known idiom says. Schoolteacher Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) is looking for his silver lining after…
Dear Steven Chbosky, I wanted to write to you because you wrote that book I love so much and then you wrote and directed…
Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) a WWII veteran turned drifting vagrant, wakes up on the ocean-liner of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a writer and…