Steven Soderbergh’s latest film Black Bag is an absolute doozy.
Taking its name not only from the nickname for the covert operations that intelligence agencies carry out, but also the notion that between spouses or partners, regardless of how many are within the intelligence world when one gets home everything is put into a black bag not to be discussed with the other.
I’ll go very little into the details as this is a spy thriller that plays like a…
One of the very funniest movies ever made. Based on a Broadway play, involves the Brewster family and, in particular, Moore Brewster, a writer who has spoken out against marriage and who keeps putting off his marriage to his girlfriend, Elaine Harper, but he finally capitulates and he’s getting ready to leave for his honeymoon.
But, he also has some very weird relatives (don’t we all!). His cousin Teddy Brewster who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, his aunts Abby and Martha…
Leave it to Robert Eggers‘s to rip off a rip-off and do a great job. Had I not watched FW Murnau‘s classic 1922 silent film Nosferatu earlier in the week I might not have remembered and been able to acknowledge how closely this comes to that film which was a totally unabashed and unauthorized rip off of Brand Stoker‘s Dracula. Interestingly, the original 1922 film was almost lost. Bram Stoker was the creator and author of the novel "Dracula" in…
I really don’t know where Oppenheimer begins. Obviously, it begins pre-Los Alamos, New Mexico, but cinematically it appears to me that Oppenheimer begins with Oliver Stone’s JFK, at least in terms of its visual style. In the former film tone, created through the use of different images and cameras and types of photography, a manic exhilarating piece of cinema. Don’t @ me
Interestingly, enough Christopher Nolan to a lesser degree utilizes, both color, black and white different aspect ratios to…
