After a $10million diamond heist from an exhibition during the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, femme fatale Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) double-crosses her crook partners. She goes on the run, assumes the identity of Lily, a woman who commits […]
Director Brian De Palma’s superb neo noir movie of James Ellroy’s retro hard-boiled thriller novel The Black Dahlia is criminally neglected and underrated. Ellroy’s novel is inspired by the most notorious real-life unsolved murder in Californian […]
This nifty cult item is the 1972 directorial début of Douglas Trumbull, visual special effects supervisor wizard for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture […]
Pierce Brosnan plays a Cambridge poetry professor who begins to re-evaluate his lusty life of roving-eye sexual excess after meeting American sisters Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba in London. Director Tom Vaughan’s romcom, written by Matthew Newman, has […]
Dane DeHaan brings James Dean to Life in a snappy snap. Set in a kind of fairy tale 1955, Life is an excellent movie, with a sweet story, superlative performances and astounding visuals in a […]
Former Spider-Man Andrew Garfield stars as an American single father construction worker who struggles to get back the home that his son (Noah Lomax) and mother (Laura Dern) were evicted from by a greedy real estate broker […]
Life-affirming, uplifting entertainment has its place but it needs a tougher, grittier, more rigorous, challenging edge. Kate Mara plays real-life single mother drug user Ashley Smith who is held captive in her home by Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) on […]
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