Domhnall Gleeson
Movie Review: Goodbye Christopher Robin
This is not a children’s story about a child. It’s an adult story about a family. Goodbye Christopher Robin illuminates the rather gloomy profile of author A.A. Milne and his family—principally his son, Christopher Robin—and the inspiration behind Winnie the Pooh and its wild success. Whatever pre-conceived optimisms you have about this film, toss them out and refresh your expectations. This is no...[Read More]
Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens needed to do two things. First of all, it needed to erase the sour memory of the prequels, at least in the minds of ardent Star Wars fans. Secondly, it needed to prove it could stand with the original trilogy as a fitting sequel to Return of the Jedi (1983). Amazingly, it does both. From the opening crawl, which packs more excitement into it than any of the crawls from...[Read More]
Leonardo DiCaprio Goes Wild in The Revenant Teaser Trailer
New Regency and 20th Century Fox have released an exclusive teaser trailer for the upcoming film, The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, and directed and co-written by renowned filmmaker and Academy Award winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Birdman, Babel). The film takes its inspiration from the legendary explorer Hugh Glass. ABOUT THE FILM: THE REVENANT: I...[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]
Movie Review: Unbroken
A few months ago the pared, gritty World War II tank picture Fury, led with muted intensity by Brad Pitt, caused little stir though it was a modest, hard-won victory in an old genre. It was also a far more involving trawl through war hell than the miscast, timid Unbroken. We have served countless tours through combat documents, all that history on film, it comes as a surprise then that director An...[Read More]
Movie Review: Anna Karenina
Even if it were not for Keira Knightley’s odd facial tics and total lack of intensity, Joe Wright’s lavishly-staged adaptation of Tolstoy’s Russian literature cornerstone Anna Karenina would still play like the tragic romance Oprah Winfrey thought she selected for her book club and made an unlikely 21st century bestseller. Gone are the long passages concerning the young, ascetic farmer Levi – Tols...[Read More]