Alicia Vikander
Movie Review: Blue Bayou
While there may be more ambition and intention than is fully realized in the end product, what is produced is a remarkable and rewarding exploration of the immigration system.
Movie Review: The Glorias
Director Julie Taymor’s often entertaining, yet occasionally whimsical, biography of the feminist icon Gloria Steinem, The Glorias, covers over eighty years of Steinem’s amazing and remarkable life. A feat that is achieved by the portrayal of the subject by no less than four distinctly original actresses at four disparate periods of Steinem’s story. Crafted from Steinem’s memoir, My Life on the Ro...[Read More]
Focus Features Snares Justin Chon’s ‘Blue Bayou’ Out of Cannes
Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to writer/director Justin Chon’s Blue Bayou, from MACRO and Entertainment One (eOne) out of Cannes’ virtual market. In addition to writing and directing the film, Chon (above), who has previously won multiple festival awards for Ms. Purple and Gook, also stars alongside Academy Award® winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl), Mark O̵...[Read More]
Movie Review: Jason Bourne
“You Know His Name” claim the posters for the latest Jason Bourne adventure, Jason Bourne. If you have seen any of the previous Bourne films (check out our retrospective on all the films), not only do you know his name, but you know this movie as well. Taking the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach to extreme lengths, star Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass return to the hit spy franch...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
This late summer film, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is inspired by the 1964-68 television series. Director Guy Ritchie’s take on the international spy team is surprisingly great! This is a quick-witted, not without some well-timed sarcasm, blast back into the 1960s world of the secret agent. Henry Cavill is brilliant As CIA agent Napoleon Solo. Solo is a former thief that is paying his debt to the U.S....[Read More]
Interview with Alex Garland, writer/director of Ex Machina
Alex Garland’s résumé reads like a laundry list of recent sci-fi and horror cult hits, with screenplay credits including 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), and Dredd (2012). His latest, Ex Machina, may stand to follow that same path of cult adoration – although hopefully for Garland, its box office will follow more in the footsteps of 28 Days Later than those of Dredd. The sparse, character-dr...[Read More]
Movie Review: Ex Machina
Ex Machina may not be quite as profound an “ideas” movie as writer-director Alex Garland thinks it is, but I’m willing to cut it some slack for at least taking the shot. Garland’s film is intimate and intensely character-driven, with essentially only three main characters bouncing off each other in a very confined space. The film raises some interesting questions about human emotion, our desire to...[Read More]