If “Dune” from 2021 was a preface, an introduction, breaking us gently into the dense universe of author Frank Herbert, then “Dune Part Two” is an acceleration. With each of his films, director, now auteur Denis Villeneuve, hones his craft, creating films with a brilliance that has lately only been seen in Christopher Nolan’s films. […]
Wes Anderson’s stamp (wry humor, meaningful free association, characters in caricature, intrigue/mystery, curiosity, folksy drama, to name a few) is all over “The French Dispatch,” a group of stories about a Frenchified newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, with that name owned by Arthur Howitzer, Jr., after his father, the founder of the publication died.
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
Don’t go to see Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg’s submarine thriller “Kursk” expecting something another “U-571” or “Crimson Tide.” You’ll want to lower your expectations, very low, for this flick starring Matthias Schoenaerts (“Red Sparrow”). Interestingly, the story behind Russian submarine Kursk has been told many times in various mediums to be such a recent tragedy. Robert Rodat’s
Having somehow unintentionally evaded 29-year-old Xavier Dolan’s previous acclaimed four films (he is already an 8 time Cannes award winner, and twice nominated for The Palm d’Or); Nothing can prepare the viewer for his latest It’s Only the End of the World. One of the nine finalists in consideration for the Academy Awards Foreign Film,
Yorgos Lanthimos’s first English language film will stand out as 2016’s most peculiar film (although it played most film festivals last year). It should ignite fans of films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or I Heart Huckabees, as it seeks to bewilder the romance genre to an unrecognizable point. Its weirdness is its
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
There should never be any confusion about which films are by Wes Anderson. He is an auteur in every meaning of the word, as he has carved out a specific niche for his own distinctive creativity. Like a painter who reinvented brush strokes or a vocal artist with a special sound, Wes Anderson’s films are