Film Reviews
Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, and Greg Kinnear star in a modern historical drama, directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. Timely in its relevance to the current cultural moment, yet also traditional in its narrative structure, Misbehaviour peers back some 50 … Continue reading Review: ‘Misbehavior’
Even though the young men featured in Ninian Doff’s energetic comedy Get Duked! aren’t the most likeable of characters when we first meet them, they do grow on you. And by the film’s end, their unwitting streaks of dumb luck … Continue reading Review: ‘Get Duked!’
Dev Patel stars in director Armando Iannucci’s fresh new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ venerable novel. First published in 1850, Charles Dickens’ eighth novel incorporated a number of events and characters from his own life, to the extent that it’s been … Continue reading Review: ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ Finds the Delight of It
Based on a novel by Krystal Sutherland and directed by Richard Tanne, Chemical Hearts contains all the trappings of solid teen-fiction fascinations. At the center, there’ s a moody young relationship between two high schoolers whose unstable grasp on life … Continue reading Review: ‘Chemical Hearts’
After a short delay while movie theaters realign themselves to prepare for the new age of sterilized movie going and sharp-eyed/reluctant glances towards every cough in a six-foot radius, prodigious musician, producer, writer, and general cultural figure RZA’s (Robert Fitzgerald … Continue reading Review: ‘Cut Throat City’
Marjane Satrapi’s new film about the extraordinary life of pioneering scientist Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike) begins almost at the end of her life. Continue reading Review: ‘Radioactive’
