A Gotham gangster saga that injects the iconic comic book villain with real world evil. As a character piece this shades in Oswald Cobb with the same psychological texture as a Tony Soprano or Michael Corleone. Colin Farrell (IN BRUGE) is clearly relishing every bite of Oz's vile marrow, savouring every waddle. Then there's his tormented antagonist in the form Cristin Milioti's (PALM SPRINGS) Sophia Falcone just as richly realized as an equal and opposite force of unpredictable violence. Great…
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Man on Fire 1987
Personally I rank this one over Tony Scott's later adaptation of AJ Quinell's Creasy novel.
It's one dark & moody son-of-a-bitch...and so is Scott Glenn's (THE CHALLENGE) Creasy. Here it all comes with a surreal tinge as his brooding silence consumes the picturesque Italian landscape. Mix in some quietly candid seeming moments between Creasy and his charge and you get a low key thriller with artistic sensibilities.
When the action happens it carries weight with that jarring real risky stunts, real…
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The Raid 2 2014
How can I put this subtly? RAID 2 is the greatest action spectacle since John Woo’s THE KILLER. Nothing short of the benchmark to be aspired too in the future for excitement, cinematography and staging this game changer makes most in the genre seem like light sparing at best. If only every filmmaker could spend 18 months choreographing full contact combat while coordinating camera moves that participate in the carnage. This is a bone crunching high velocity experience that leaves…
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The Witch 2015
Labeling this experience a horror film does a massive disservice to this masterfully Directed slow burn period drama dripping in dread and sorrow. (It would be like relegating PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK a horror and leaving it at that) Ambiguities blur the line between puritanical perception dictating the realities of a family in spiritual and domestic crisis threatened by supernatural turmoil. The cinematography and score conjure a surreal atmosphere that takes us convincingly back in time while the naturalistic performances sprout ye olde English dialogue without a hint of artifice.
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