[Minor Spoilers Ahead] S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk offers a glimpse of the direction American Westerns may have taken if they had bypassed the Revisionist sub-genre and taken all of its cues from Spaghetti Westerns. Equal parts technically brilliant and…
Bridge Of Spies Movie Review
At this point, you could probably fill a History of War book with DVDs of Steven Spielberg films. He tacked the brutality and atrocity of the second world war in Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, while parading a War…
Movie Review – ‘Aferim!’
Along sun-dappled forest roads Turks zoom by in city-bound carriages. In muddy villages Hungarians swap stories, jokes, and curses while Russians gossip of the latest French fashions. In a bustling tavern a lone confused Englishman, complete with manicured mustache and…
Movie Review: ‘Momentum’
[Minor Spoilers Ahead] Ain’t no quarter for an honest thief these days. Alex Farraday (Olga Kurylenko) learned this the hard way after refusing to kill witnesses who saw her face during a diamond heist. One way or another a group…
Movie Review: ‘Pan’
Pan is certainly not the first film to expand on the world of Neverland. We live in a world where Hollywood constantly churns out prequels and reboots. I can’t say that I was surprised when I heard about a prequel…
Ally’s Movie Review: 99 Homes
99 Homes had one of the most viscerally upsetting moments in film that I’ve seen this year in a scene where humans are seen at their lowest and most selfish, and it’s one that speaks largely to the overall nature…
Movie Review: ‘Tokyo Tribe’
“If you ain’t ready to die/You can’t survive. Is there any point in praying?/Is there a price to living?” In his immaculate dining room the corpulent, cannibalistic Lord Buppa (Riki Takeuchi) holds court. By his side, his son Nkoi (Yôsuke…