Joy (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
David O. Russell’s recent works have slotted the neurotic capriciousness of his early films, which melded the loose, improvisatory method …
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Outland (1982) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Peter Hyams began his movie career after a spell as a TV newsman, breaking into screenwriting on the wistful melodrama …
The Big Night (1951) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Joseph Losey’s The Big Night could well stand alongside Nicholas Ray’s Knock on Any Door and They Live by Night …
Locke (2013) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The mantra of “cinematic” as a purely visual realm has dominated discussion and teaching of film in the past few …
The Banshee Chapter (2013) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The debut film of neophyte writer-director Blair Erickson, The Banshee Chapter is that rarest of modern cinematic beasts: a genuinely …
The Night Has Eyes (1942) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
In the 1940s, bombs were dropping on Britain and its gallant young men were doing their duty in khaki. Meanwhile, …
Lone Survivor (2013) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Some true stories, when we hear them, seem so dramatic, so improbable, so deviously yet accidentally perfect that they elicit …
Concussion (2013) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
We’re moving into an age in which institutionalised gay marriage is becoming a norm. Concussion, the debut film from Stacie …
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Roman Coppola, son of Francis, brother to Sofia, is the popularly ignored scion who made the terrific but scarcely-seen CQ …
Beautiful Creatures (2013) Movie Review, Cast & Crew, Film Summary
Witches could be the next big thing: Beautiful Creatures follows editions of the necromantic evil Queen in Snow White and The …
