Whether it’s ogling Channing Tatum in a G-string during 2009’s Magic Mike or following a cockroach down a pipe into a secure vault in last year’s Logan Lucky, Steven Soderbergh’s camera understands every object in terms of its status as…
Movie Review: War for the Planet of the Apes
In the opening minutes of War for the Planet of the Apes, the third entry in the rebooted franchise of the 1968 Charlton Heston-starring original, a human soldier trudges up a forested hill sporting a metal cap with an engraved…
Movie Review: Voyage of Time (Life’s Journey, The IMAX Experience)
Somewhere between his debut feature Badlands and this year’s Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick peeled conventional narrative from his films; his work became unashamedly naked. Malick’s new modest opus, Voyage of Time, is a radical diversion not simply because it’s his…
Movie Review: Ben-Hur
There is a peculiar shot before the sea battle in Timur Bekmambetov’s Ben-Hur. The eponymous character is shackled, badly bruised and covered in mud, the effects of poor living conditions on the Roman Vessel he has been imprisoned on for…
Movie Review: ‘Equals’
It is better, presumably, to decipher meaning like a game of hide and seek, to make the plot a puzzle to be solved, and for characters to be enigmas that need cracking. If this were a rule, it would leave…
Cannes Report #4 (Personal Affairs, Sweet Dreams, Mean Dreams, From The Land To The Moon)
There’s a whole list of dos and don’ts at Cannes that are common knowledge, but not common sense. Booing after a screening isn’t just acceptable, but a tradition. If you tip at restaurants, they’ll take your money, but it’s not…
