Oscar Isaac
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: Inside Llewyn Davis
In scenes organized like the complimentary songs of a weary 2:00 am vinyl album, Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis unfolds as another of their heartfelt, seriocomic, unsentimental, fine-brush portraits of distinctly-Jewish men at an existential dead-end (Barton Fink, A Serious Man) – this time set amidst the grey dawn of the early Sixties boom in the Greenwich Village of folk clubs, earnes...[Read More]
A Ten-Year-Old Film Critic Reviews Won’t Back Down
I loved this movie! Won’t Back Down is a rockin’ movie full of both sad and happy parts. It was very emotional. The movie starts off with a little girl named Malia Fitzpatrick (Emily Alyn Lind), who is not learning in school, and her mom, Jamie Fitzpatrick (Maggie Gyllenhaal), is very frustrated about that. So her mom wants to change the school and goes through this big adventure to make Adams Ele...[Read More]
Movie Review: W.E.
It should come as no surprise that Madonna would be fascinated by the story of Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced socialite for whom King Edward VIII (David, as his familiars called him) abdicated the British throne in order to marry. Simpson, the subject of Madonna’s new film W.E., was a survivor: outspoken, calculating, popular yet unpopular in the media, and sexual and ambitious at a time when ...[Read More]
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