Faraday
“As if she was a Blu-Ray and he was a screener.” The title character of the film Faraday (2013) is an aspiring paranormal investigator who moves into a cheap apartment… Read more »
Tag: Ana de Armas
Overdrive
Overdrive (2017) is a film that’s exactly what it looks like in its trailer and on its poster. Overdrive combines the spectacle of opulent wealth in Ocean’s 11 (2001) with… Read more »
Knock Knock
From the second I began watching Knock Knock (2015) I began thinking about whether Keanu Reeves really is the new Seymour Cassel. By the end of the film it’s clear… Read more »
Ghosted
Ghosted (2023) isn’t a very good movie but it isn’t all that bad either. I much prefer to see Hollywood pouring millions into genres that have nothing to do with… Read more »
The Gray Man
In the opening scene of The Gray Man (2022), Billy Bob Thornton’s CIA handler says to Ryan Gosling’s con and soon to be secret agent “I get it, you’re glib”,… Read more »
Deep Water
After a twenty year absence Adrian Lyne has returned to filmmaking. Deep Water (2022) is nowhere near Lyne’s masterpiece, Jacob’s Ladder (1990), but it never pretends to be. What Lyne… Read more »
The Night Clerk
Michael Cristofer’s film The Night Clerk (2020), a Netflix original, takes more than a few cues from the films of Brian De Palma. The Night Clerk employs both Hitchcockian and… Read more »
No Time To Die
Like so many actors before him the time has come for Daniel Craig to close the book on James Bond. When Daniel Craig first appeared on screen in the classic… Read more »
Knives Out
When I saw Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (2019) at my local Cinemark I disliked it. Seeing Knives Out two years later I like it even less. Johnson’s film is as… Read more »
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner (1982) has gotten a sequel. Anyone who has seen Ridley Scott’s film is probably wondering why or even how a sequel could have been made. Oddly, Blade Runner… Read more »
