Made by an Irish director with Irish funds based on an American Young Adult book series and set in the United States, this curious low-budget thriller, shot on 16mm, has a certain hand-sewn élan. Max Records (Where The Wild Things Are) plays a teenage loner – John Wayne Cleaver (!) – who, along with his shrink, thinks…
DetailsJoseph Gordan-Levitt atones for The Walk with his titular performance in Snowden, a film no-one else but Oliver Stone was going to make. I’m glad he did. It’s uneven, ramming brilliant scenes up against turgid ones, but ultimately it’s an overwhelmingly powerful experience. Like all Oliver Stone films, it gets you by the end. There are three distinct…
DetailsA busy week this time around, folks! (Yes, I used the word ‘folks’. Deal with it.) Friday is a packed day, so here’s your essential information a wee bit early. Wouldn’t want you to get impatient, right? Let’s go! In this week’s “At this rate, no problem!” story, Netflix would like to see 50 %…
DetailsBritish TV documentarian Louis Theroux is a very clever chap. He obviously realised that the Alex Gibney documentary Going Clear was going to be the Big Boy of Scientology feature docos for quite awhile. Hence the title My Scientology Movie, which is tongue in cheek, certainly, but also implies a different tack and a different take – both…
DetailsRon Howard’s documentary unfortunately contains little that was not done better in the epic television documentary The Beatles Anthology (1995) and nothing that will be revelatory to Beatles fans of any level. What’s being touted is new footage, and there is that. I’d never seen, for example, footage from concerts in Manilla and Tokyo, and that stuff…
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