Maybe you have seen the previous four collaborations with Mads Mikkelsen and director Anders Thomas Jensen, or maybe this is your first experience with their work. Either way “Riders of Justice” is more than just a Danish action film, it’s so creative that it’s making its way into the mainstream movie world here in the […]
This film is just what you hope it will be; an inspiring story of a horse and its owners coming into their own through a bit—or perhaps a considerable amount—of trauma. Additionally, it’s based on a true story. I like the way the movie opens with Jan (Collette), a middle-class woman in Wales, working several low-level jobs,
This is a captivating murder mystery that takes place in a small town in Australia, and when childhood friend of the accused killer of his family and himself, Luke, Aaron (Bana) is asked by Luke’s father to attend the funeral, he goes. Aaron is currently a police detective in another city; he and his father had
Finding You. I was turned off by the title right away; what does that even mean? Another rom com? Then I saw the movie. Wow! The number of connotations of the phrase is so artfully blended into the story, I was incredulous by the end. Finley Sinclair (Reid) is a high school graduate who, after failing a violin audition, decides
Sicario, Hell or High Water, Wind River, all films written by American screenwriter and director Taylor Sheridan. Those Who Wish Me Dead marks the second of his “law enforcement” thrillers he has directed. You could argue this is his weakest yet, Sheridan’s worst film is better than most at their best. His ability to write
With a new title, marquee names on the poster and no jigsaw puppet, “Spiral” is a reboot of sorts to the “Saw” franchise (2004-2017) that ran out of steam around its third installment. Technically, “Spiral” is the ninth film in the franchise, and while there is new blood in front of the camera, director Darren
Guy Ritchie’s new film “Wrath of Man” opens a lot like Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” which was inspired by Michael Mann’s “Heat”. If you have followed Ritchie’s work through the action genre and you see Jason Statham attached you expect something like “The Gentleman” (2019) or “RocknRolla” (2008). “Wrath of Man” is more morose,
This is a kung fu action movie like you’ve never seen before, most likely. Three middle-aged men who had special status in their youth for being the chosen of their master teacher, (“the unbeatable Paper Tigers) feel bound to defend the honor of their idol after he has died, despite the fact that they have not
This chronicle of all the times since 1991’s Oslo Accord that Israelis and Palestinians have attempted to come to a peace agreement with the U.S. as negotiator demonstrates how deep-seated the hostility is between the two sides. Israelis were so against Yitzhak Rabin’s signed agreement with the Palestinians he was killed. Palestinians were so much against an
Recently, Glenn Close became the record holder for most Oscar loses as an eight-time acting nominee. While “Hillbilly Elegy” failed to earn her the gold as a mother dealing with a drug-addicted daughter, “Four Good Days” is familiar territory. Close again portrays a mother who has all but given up on an addicted daughter, this