Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Swedish director Tomas Alfredson exploded onto the international scene in 2007 with his unsettling child vampire flick, ‘Let the Right One In.’ In that film, he took a rather implausible premise and...
View ArticleLIVING IN A TOM HARDY WORLD – The new “Batman” trailer
This is Tom Hardy’s moment–this guy’s everywhere. The British actor who became known to American audiences a couple of years ago for his turn in Nicholas Winding Refn’s 2008 feature film “Bronson” (see...
View ArticleNEW DARK KNIGHT RISES TRAILER RELEASED
“I’m Gotham’s reckoning,” the joker (played by Tom Hardy) says under his weird WWII-styled gas mask. That’s enough to make any Marvel Comics fans drunk with joy. A brand-new trailer of The Dark Knight...
View ArticleREVIEW | THE DROP
Italian filmmakers created the genre of the Spaghetti Western. That makes “The Drop” an Amstel Eastern. The cast and crew of this New Jersey mob movie hail from the mean streets of Belgium, the land of...
View ArticleCANNES FESTIVAL TO OPEN WITH GEORGE MILLER’S MAD MAX SEQUEL
Can’t blame the coolest and most important film festival in the world for wanting to launch with a crackle and a bang. The festival in question is Cannes (but of course) and the so-called bang will be...
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MAD MAX FURY ROAD: gravity optional
Thirty years after MAD MAX : BEYOND THE THUNDERDOM director George Miller brings MAD MAX : FURY ROAD. This new chapter in the post-acocalyptic saga includes an A-team cast made up of Tom Hardy (THE...
View ArticleThe Revenant
Of course, the historical Hugh Glass, legendary nineteenth-century frontiersman left for dead by his fellows after surviving a horrific grizzly bear attack, never had a half-Native American son. But...
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In Dunkirk, England Wins World War II. Again.
For “Dunkirk” Christopher Nolan cast the puppy-eyed lead singer of One Direction, Harry Styles, as a British soldier during the famed 1940 evacuation. This is entirely appropriate. I say this because...
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“Dunkirk”
I know, I know, you’re jaded. You’ve seen it all in hundreds, nay, thousands of movies. War movies, survival movies, hanging-on-by-the skin-of-your-teeth movies, abandon-hope movies, never-lose-hope...
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REVIEW: “Capone,” there was nary a word out of Tom Hardy’s Fonzo (but grunts...
Every mobster’s life is filled with the ghosts of the past and the nightmares of the dead that come back to haunt them. It is a dangerous life ruled by guns and muscle and stained in blood. Men like Al...
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