Simon Pegg is a talented and successful man of the movies. Besides Spaced and “the Cornetto trilogy” of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End – his almost always excellent collaborations with writer / director Edgar Wright – and his occupation of second-tier funnyman in the Mission Impossible, Star Trek and (new) Star Wars franchises, he’s also a seriously well-endowed screenwriter, including…
DetailsKristen Stewart last showed her chops head to head with Julianne Moore in Still Alice; Moore won an Oscar. I don’t think Juliette Binoche is going to win an Oscar for going head-to-head with Stewart for Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas’s new enigmatic, occasionally frustrating but ultimately wonderful new film, and I think the reason is that Binoche…
DetailsDaniel Craig’s final film as James Bond is a visually dark, contemplative, adult affair that seeks to conclude a four-film arc, marking out Craig’s tenure as a sort of self-contained series within the larger franchise. Its plot directly links it to the previous three films, and there’s no doubt that this approach, given that Craig…
DetailsThe Blueblack Hussar starts with Adam walking up the steps of a Victorian Monument in the present day, and then cuts to footage of him doing the same as a young man. He still looks great, and the timing of this documentary is apt, as Ant’s “Antmusic” is featured on the “Ant-Man” soundtrack. As symphonic…
DetailsAny film that falls into the ilk of Season of the Witch with Nicolas Cage is immediately on my watch list. Yes, that is basically shouting from the rooftops that I’m either an idiot, or simply out of my mind. I can’t even really say that some movies are so bad they need to be…
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