Leave The World Behind is a new Netflix thriller, the title of which comes from the tagline on the Air BnB-style holiday website being perused by Amanda Sandford (Julia Roberts – Money Monster), who figures …
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Leave The World Behind is a new Netflix thriller, the title of which comes from the tagline on the Air BnB-style holiday website being perused by Amanda Sandford (Julia Roberts – Money Monster), who figures …
Continue readingRaymond and Ray is one of those low-key movies which, overall, feels more than the sum of its parts. It centres around the two half-brothers in the title, Raymond (Ewan McGregor) and Ray (Ethan Hawke), …
Continue readingThe Guilty (2021) is a remake of the 2018 Danish real-time thriller which was very good, but the action moves to California, where once on-the-beat cop Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler) has been demoted …
Continue readingCut Throat City is a heist movie, directed by RZA, set in the lower ninth ward in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, in 2005. Based on this trailer, it’s not wholly my bag, but looks …
Continue readingThe Captor was originally called Stockholm, in a film based on a bizarre, but true, bank heist in 1973 which turned into a hostage crisis and spawned the term “Stockholm Syndrome”, as the captor bonds …
Continue readingThe Kid paints the scenario of a very unhappy family, as young lad Rio Cutler (Jake Schur) is faced with no choice other than to take out his evil father, who has just dispatched of …
Continue readingStockholm tells the bizarre, but true, story of the infamous 1973 hostage crisis in Stockholm, and a tale of Stockholm Syndrome, where the captor bonds with the criminal – in this case, Kaj Hansson (Ethan …
Continue readingThe Kid is not a remake of the decent Bruce Willis time-travel-based movie from 2000 which most people have forgotten about, but a new take on the Billy The Kid story, and one which looks …
Continue readingFirst Reformed is the name of the church run by Rev. Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), who begins to keep a diary for one year, with the intent that, after this time, he’ll destroy it. Quite …
Continue readingJuliet, Naked tells the story of Annie (Rose Byrne – X-Men: Apocalypse), the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan (Chris O’Dowd), and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke), who …
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