Hollywood is obsessed with love, hell its the one universal language that binds almost every film together. It's the concept that connects us all even without the movies and literature that propagate the notion of it. Give someone a blank page and ask them to write about what love is and what it should be …
Continue reading Review: Zoe (2018) – Love In The Time of Computing
If someone asked if I expected after 22 years the Mission Impossible franchise would be stronger than ever and entering its 6th incarnation I would have to say no, but then again when Mission Impossible 2 came out I was just as shocked. Despite my affection for the opening picture it didn't seem like it …
Continue reading Review: Mission Impossible Fallout (2018) – Looking Back to Move Forward
There is a common thread to films about revenge and its that death changes people. It strips away pieces of the person you used to be. Mitch Rapp, the titual revenge seeking assassin clearly lost both his intelligence and sense of subtlety when his fiancee is brutally killed in a terrorist attack in the films …
Continue reading Review: American Assassin (2017) – Nobody Likes Rapp
I keep hearing the same thing regurgitating out of critics mouths when it comes to Leave No Trace and that's the cliched line that 'this will stick with you long after you have left the cinema'. It may not be the most well known cliche or even the snappiest (I mean, its a bit of …
Continue reading Review: Leave No Trace (2018) – Lush, Vivid & Desolate
I wanted to start this with a quote, something that pointed out the truth in that to review a film you have to be a little bit, for lack of a better word, heartless. To an extent you have to be dispassionate to look at a piece of work, be it on the screen or …
The Sardonic Romantic 