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REVIEW: ‘Safety Last!’ (1923)
Title: ‘Safety Last!’ 1923, USA Director: Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis A poor store clerk organizes a publicity stunt that should earn him the money to finally marry the girl of his dreams. But when the day comes for his friend Bill to climb a 12-stories building in front […]
REVIEW: ‘Forever’ (2015)
Title: ‘Forever’ 2015, USA Director: Tatia Pilieva Cast: Deborah Ann Woll, Luke Grimes, John Diehl After experiencing a tragic loss, a young investigative reporter joins an enigmatic commune of people united by their sorrowful past. It’s rather difficult for me to formulate a coherent opinion about this small indie drama by Tatia Pilieva, and this […]
REVIEW: ‘San Andreas’ (2015)
Title: ‘San Andreas’ 2015, USA Director: Brad Peyton Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario There is a limit after which a mindless-entertainment flick becomes pure mind-boggling dumbness. And ‘San Andreas’ crosses that limit over and over again, until your brain just can’t take it anymore. I’ll start from the one good thing this movie […]
REVIEW: ‘The Dressmaker’ (2015)
Title: ‘The Dressmaker’ 2015, Australia Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse Cast: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth A stylish woman returns to her bleak village to exact her revenge on those who did her wrong. Her weapon: fashion. “I’m back, you bastards” I went into this movie completely blind. Kate Winslet is reason enough for me to […]
REVIEW: ‘Freeheld’ (2015)
Title: ‘Freeheld’ 2015, USA Director: Peter Sollett Cast: Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon If we lived in a different, more just world, it’d be easier to dismiss ‘Freeheld’ as a rather conventional drama enriched by quality performances from an impressive cast of A-list names. Unfortunately, the world we still live in in 2016 is […]
REVIEW: ‘JeruZalem’ (2015)
Title: ‘JeruZalem’ 2015, Israel Director: Doron Paz & Yoav Paz Cast: Danielle Jadelyn, Yael Grobglas, Yon Tumarkin I think it’s time I admit I have a problem: I’m in an abusive relationship with found footage horror movies. Every time I let myself be convinced that maybe for once it’ll be different, that it won’t be […]
REVIEW: ‘Frankenstein’ (2015)
Title: ‘Frankenstein’ 2015, USA/Germany Director: Bernard Rose Cast: Xavier Samuel, Carrie-Anne Moss, Danny Huston Two brilliant scientists give life in their lab to a full-grown human being. The simple-minded creature escapes the facility, and finds himself thrown into a world he doesn’t understand. As you can tell from this brief summary, ‘Frankenstein’ is exactly what […]
REVIEW: ‘The Survivalist’ (2015)
Title: ‘The Survivalist’ 2015, UK Director: Stephen Fingleton Cast: Martin McCann, Mia Goth, Olwen Fouere ‘The Survivalist’ belongs to the kind of movies that slowly but relentlessly close their grip on their audience, and don’t let go, even after the credits stop rolling. From a budgetary point of view, this is a small indie film […]
REVIEW: ‘Sicario’ (2015)
Title: ‘Sicario’ 2015, USA Director: Denis Villeneuve Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin This is a movie that’s been sitting in my watching list for quite some time now. When it first was released, theaters in my town apparently thought that an actual quality film wasn’t worthy of space on their screens filled […]
REVIEW: ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ (1969)
Title: ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ 1969, UK/USA Director: Ronald Neame Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin “I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.” […]
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