Whatever “Mean Creek” director Jacob Estes was going for with “Don’t Let Go”, an experiment in “Memento” type writing structure, or a modern update of “Frequency”, it’s a spectacular failure. “Don’t Let Go’s” foundation of a cop talking with his dead niece on a cell phone to solve her murder, isn’t promising. “Don’t Let Go” […]
His third time out as director will very likely lead to his third Academy Award. Denzel Washington (The Magnificent Seven), already having won a Tony alongside Viola Davis, adapting August Winters work on Broadway, will now likely repeat at the Oscars. Washington adapts Winters work with little change to accommodate for the visual screen. Fences
I will say this for the horror film series, the third installment is smart, scrapping plans for a prequel, in order to cash in on the American election year. Using politics as the main focus in The Purge: Election Year will certainly make an otherwise ordinary sequel more trendy. Writer/director James DeMonaco has stuck with