Kidnapping drama Everybody Knows sees an impressive confluence of talent with esteemed Iranian director Asghar Farhadi at the helm and a cast led by Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. The film often lives up to the promise offered by this dream team but a little too frequently slips into soap operatic drama. Cruz plays Laura a mother of two who
Read moreDespite the fact that The Gunman is set amid the tragic turmoil of the war in the Congo and the fact that it stars and was co-written by noted Hollywood activist Sean Penn, this film is not an exceptionally political film. What appears in the first few minutes to be a Syriana-style exploration of third world political corruption and the
Read moreSome films look amazing on paper but suck on the big screen. The Counselor is one such film. Helmed by one of Hollywood’s most artistically inspired directors in Ridley Scott, scripted by one of the most acclaimed authors of the last 50 years in Cormac McCarthy and featuring a dream team cast of Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Cameron
Read moreEnigmatic director Terence Malick is about to divide audiences once again with his latest perplexing cinematic tone poem To the Wonder. Post-film arguments will rage over whether this movie is a profound statement of existential malaise, decaying faith and suburban alienation or just pretentious drivel? Although Malick has ditched the dinosaurs in To the Wonder, he has managed to create
Read moreThe plots of James Bond films are usually confusing to the point of being irrelevant and just an excuse for bond to go shagging and shooting his way around the globe. Skyfall has its fair share of bedroom gymnastics and killings but it also has greater psychological depth and emotional complexity than just about any Bond film as it forces
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