Review: What We Did on Our Holiday
Perhaps hoping to replicate the recent film successes of fellow television scribes Brendan O'Carroll (Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie) and Iain...
Review: The Infinite Man
A prime example of how a film can wear its influences on its sleeve and still glide on its own fantastical orbit, The Inifinite Man is a...
Review: Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice is set in 1970, the decade that begat many a California noir such as Roman Polanski's Chinatown, Arthur Penn's Night Moves,...
Review: The Gambler
The Gambler is a remake of the underrated 1974 film starring James Caan. There shall be no further mention of the original from here on...
Review: My Old Lady
Septuagenarian Israel Horovitz adapts one of his own plays to make his feature film debut with My Old Lady, a light comedy that steers...
Review: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
A whopping achievement on all fronts, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a watershed in modern filmmaking for which...
Review: Unbroken
A beautifully embalmed biopic, Unbroken charts the extraordinary survival story of Olympic runner Louis Zamperini, who survived 47 days...
Review: Wild
"I'm lonelier in my real life than I am out here," Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) confesses at one point in Wild, the true account of...
Review: A Most Violent Year
A first-rate vivisection of ambition and moral compromise, A Most Violent Year is set in 1981, reportedly the worst year on record for...
Review: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, Not Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst's 1972 children's book chronicling the series of unfortunate events that unfold during a day in young Alexander's life...
