Although the heist film had been rearing its cathartic head in cinema for some time with some personal favourites such as The Killing (1956), Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Heat (1995) to name a few. Ocean's Eleven (2001) still manages to feel like the urtext to my personal heist canon. With its many sequels and films such as Focus (2015) feeling like pale imitations.
The first of the informal quadrilogy, it relies on its upwards trajectory to an exhaustive extent. The…
Prior to The Fighter my exposure to David O. Russell had been his two films post the aforementioned one. Silver Linings Playbook turned out to be one of my most hated films, in no uncertain terms. The less said about American Hustle the better. I also wasted my time on Flirting With Disaster too.
This, however, had me gripped from start to finish. Using all the macro approach to mental health he so poorly utilised with Bradley Cooper in Silver…
This is probably Christopher Nolan's magnum opus. I can't remember the last time a director continued on from a film of this scope.
If Cillian Murphy doesn't win the oscar there's genuinely no reason to ever watch the oscars ever again. Emily Blunt, RDJ and even Matt Damon have a shout too.
Had chills throughout most of the film, especially the bomb detonation. My only qualm was it might have been a little too long but who cares.
There's a scene, in this film where Johansson and Schwartzman talk to each other about just seeing an alien. Something along the lines of 'Did you feel anything?' is asked, in reply the other answers 'No.'. Which is how this film felt for me. For any other director this film is brilliant, beautiful and something truly unique. Yet, for Wes Anderson it feels more like the same thing as his last film.
Anderson was the first director I truly got…
