“Maria” will complete director Pablo Larraín‘s “Women in Heels“ trilogy, as it’s been called. “Jackie“ and “Spencer“ found their respective leads, Natalie Portman and Kristen Stewart, Oscar-nominated. That will repeat for Oscar winner Angelina Jolie (“Girl Interrupted,” “The Changeling”) portraying famed opera singer Maria Calles. Larraín implores the same tactics from the previous two films: […]
Fresh off winning best picture and director at the last Academy Awards for her masterpiece “Nomadland”, Chloe Zhao delivers the most unusual Marvel film in some time. Unusual is a welcome diversion from the familiar superheroes, whose origin stories have been played out to exhaustion. While the big question of how these “Eternals” fit into
Sicario, Hell or High Water, Wind River, all films written by American screenwriter and director Taylor Sheridan. Those Who Wish Me Dead marks the second of his “law enforcement” thrillers he has directed. You could argue this is his weakest yet, Sheridan’s worst film is better than most at their best. His ability to write
The strides Disney made with the original “Maleficent” (2014) are lost and forgotten in the sequel that reunites Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie with those squared cheekbones and devilish horns. The opening sequence is a conglomeration of over-saturated and mediocre CGI, reacquainting audiences with the fairytale land of The Moors and creatures therein. The narration informs us that
Roger Ebert said, “No one can play Lara Croft like Angelina Jolie”. It turns out, he was right. Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”) has struggled to find her place in Hollywood after winning such acclaim at an early age. The “Tomb Raider” reboot or prequel, is the first film to sit squarely
There are two reasons you are reading this review, both reasons are also why First They Killed My Father exists in the first place. The first, is simply because it’s the latest film from director Angelina Jolie. Her celebrity status as an actor gives her access to audiences that any other director behind such subject
For Angelina Jolie’s third film behind the camera, (and the first time directing herself in front), she moves even farther away from mainstream expectations.
