Movie Review: Hell or High Water

Dust billows in waves in David Mackenzie’s newest scorcher Hell or High Water a film that manages to captivate the second the first frame pops into frame. Equal parts heist thriller and meditations on life and what it means to…

Cannes Report #5 (American Honey, Personal Shopper, Hell or High Water)

One thing about the Cannes film festival is that you watch so many noteworthy films that you are bound to lost track of some. Case in point David Mackenzie’s Hell or High Water (8/10) which screened as part of the…

Ally’s Movie Review: Starred Up

One part Malcolm McDowell and his tongue-in-cheek manner of destruction, one part Tom Hardy’s Bronson and his blistering rage, Jack O’Connell embodies the lead character Eric of Starred Up with such ferocity and animalistic self-preservation that he nearly lifts the…