In high school, writer/director/producer Paul Thomas Anderson made a short mockumentary about an adult film star. Less than ten years later, he expanded that project into one of the best films of the 1990s. That film is the 1997 classic Boogie Nights. Combining Anderson’s visionary directing with excellent performances from the entire cast, the result […]
Anybody who is familiar with Mark Wahlberg’s work (or indeed his personal image) will be expecting a fair amount of posturing in any film in which he runs around injuring a lot of people. His latest collaboration with director Peter Berg is no exception, and in fact takes this unashamed bolshiness to a new level. […]
The great Herman Melville once wrote: “money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and deviltry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?” Melville made his answer to the question of what good money does very clear. Nothing but harm and misguided appetites, he said. […]
At 2:49pm on 15 April 2013, two homemade bombs went off 12 seconds and 210 yards apart at the finishing line of the annual Boston Marathon. Three were killed and hundreds were injured. Patriots Day is a film about the people who were involved, those who first responded and those who planned it. A key […]
Deepwater Horizon, depicting the worst oil disaster in US history, is a film that everyone already knows the ending to. When the rig blew up six years ago, news teams were quick to show us all footage of a broken pipe pumping filth into the Gulf of Mexico and birds covered in oil unable to […]
Daddy’s Home waves goodbye to the long running comic genius that was Will Ferrell. Classics such as Stepbrothers, Anchorman and Elf will be bowing their heads in shame at this painfully awkward Sean Anders film. Will Ferrell plays Brad; a beta over enthusiastic step-dad to his wife’s (Linda Cardellini) two kids. Just as the children […]