Between Benoit Blanc and Hercule Poirot, the whodunnit genre has an influx of sequels. Here’s the thing, from True Crime thrillers to murder mysteries, less has almost always proved to be more. Earlier this year, Kenneth Branagh’s forgettable “Death on the Nile” was the epitome of an overproduced film. It […]
Quintessential Bond with the complex plot, hair-raising chases, pretty women, and lots of booze and gadgets. Bond (Craig)—who has “disappeared” after seeing that arch-enemy Blofeld (Waltz) is incarcerated—is found in Jamaica by his old friend, CIA officer Felix Leiter (Wright), after Bond has just unceremoniously put his girlfriend Madeleine (Seydoux) on the train because of his
Rian Johnson has found time between “Star Wars” films to drop a savvy whodunnit mystery. “Knives Out” is the latest fan service flick from this fanboy filmmaker. The writer/director has assembled one of the year’s most impressive casts to reinvent “Clue” or modernize “Murder on the Orient Express.” In fact, Johnson even compares Daniel Craig’s
Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang was one of the more impressive foreign film nominees last Oscar season. But Mustang wasn’t the film she really wanted to make. It was her 2011 screenplay that evolved into Kings, a story that focuses on one non-traditional family’s struggle during the 1991 LA riots. Landing two big stars (both former
Steven Soderbergh returns with “Oceans 7-Eleven”, putting old favorites and new faces into an original script by fictitious writer Rebecca Blunt (post film, you’ll point all fingers at Soderbergh). Regardless of who wrote it, it’s very clever, very charming and has all the things we love about Soderbergh’s work in an entirely new setting: The
Daniel Craig’s fourth round as James Bond opens with a wild helicopter sequence in Mexico City during The Day of the Dead. But we might as well be celebrating the death of the Craig collaboration with Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) because for its expansive budget, Spectre doesn’t have much