Paul Thomas Anderson is rightly considered one of the most important directors of the last few decades and his film are regarded as event cinema. Still, his last couple of movies, the nostalgic Liquorice Pizza and oddball fashion world drama Phantom Thread, had mixed reactions. His latest film, the exhilaratingly bonkers activist action/drama/comedy One Battle After Another, is his most
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 moreShifting awkwardly from solid crime-busting drama to cartoonish, ultra-violent action film, Gangster Squad doesn’t know if it wants to be The Untouchables or Dick Tracy. Allegedly based on fact, the film depicts the nefarious empire of gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) a vicious New York hood and former boxer who, in the late 40’s, set up his own chapter of
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