There is a great idea at the core of Daybreakers. The film uses its science-fiction and recent future setting well to create a world which seems tangible but is based around a unique idea: Most of the population are now vampires. … Continue reading When 2019 was the Future: Daybreakers (2009) Review
First Reformed is a master-class in character study. It takes it’s time and doesn’t try to force the story too far. It moves at a fairly slow pace but in doing so gives the central figure, played by Ethan Hawke, time … Continue reading Oscars 2019: First Reformed (2018) Review
There is something “old-school” about The Magnificent Seven. Not the fact it is a Western, although that does seem novel at a time when Westerns are quite rare in Hollywood, especially close to the blockbuster season. Magnificent Seven is old-school … Continue reading The Magnificent Seven (2016) Review
I’m not sure if Dead Poets Society was the first major film to offer the story of the “inspiring teacher” but it has certainly been done many times since. In movies from Freedom Writers to Dangerous Minds, the idea of … Continue reading Dead Poets Society (1989) Review
Some ideas are probably too brilliant to ever feel their true potential on-screen. They can be so good that when you try to tell some sort of story with that idea as the central basis, you find that it never … Continue reading The Purge (2013) Review
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