Film Review: Live by Night (2016)
byBen Affleck returns as director/lead actor after his Oscar success with Argo. Live by Night is his new gangster drama set in the prohibition era….
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Film Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)
byRather than a narrative, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone has a series of wacky events weakly held together to arrive at an inevitable conclusion. Thankfully, for a film that is constantly half-baked, the last set-piece is not actually half-bad.
Film Review: Lawless (2012)
byI usually steer clear of John Hillcoat films, not that they’re bad, but because their hyper-realism leaves me feeling utterly depressed and questioning the…
Thievish Thursdays: The Sopranos
byFrom the first episode, The Straits has been compared to David Chase‘s landmark HBO series The Sopranos. It’s easy to see where the comparisons…