Jack O’Connell

The film proves to be a mixed bag that delivers on its pedigree yet seems more concerned with setting up subsequent films than concluding its story.

Although "Back to Black" may not prove to be the tell-all biography of Amy Winehouse that many may expect, it is a lovingly told story of a talented woman.

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]

The new film 300: Rise of an Empire is a follow-up, of sorts, to 300 (2006). Zack Snyder is still the lead writer on this new incarnation but the director of the new film is Noam Murro. Murro’s only prior feature directing experience was a film called Smart People (2008) and it is a good guess you didn’t see it as it grossed less than $10M domestic. It is interesting that the new film bookends its...[Read More]