Category: Movies

Although my field, it is still a careful thought process that is often required to recognize good screenwriting. We’re not necessarily talking how a movie…

Film directors are both rather exclusive and elusive come awards season. They tend to get the lion’s share of credit for the movie, but also…

I am not an industry professional or an expert historian. I am someone, however, who does not generally intend to write movie reviews. I do…

Let me first start by saying the omission in the piece of Begin Again, which would be right up there, is purely due to Lost…

With the announcement of the Golden Globes just hours away I avoided a rambling post about the this and the that, and just cut straight…

There is no How To book on making your Top 10 Films of the Year list. As far as I know. You watch movies and…

I wonder if we are yet sick and tired of talking and thinking about Gone Girl. I doubt it. In fact this may well be…

Perhaps best known as Bronson, or Bane. Or his swath turn in Inception, or slick role in Lawless. You pick one. To Hardy’s range of roles…

And so this is Christmas. A time for movies. Well, it is always a time for movies, right? Okay, a time for family and friends…

New York, New York. There is a delightful sequence in Begin Again (written and directed by John Carney), were Dan (Mark Ruffalo) and Greta (Keira…

I am not sure if, for me, the start of the awards season (officially) has been this exciting. I mean, we talk about the movies,…

After, and while, watching Luc Besson’s Lucy it crossed my mind again that sometimes you have to just take a movie for what it is….

So while I was in Greece last week, I saw a movie about owls. A computer-animated movie. I did not see the whole movie, it…