First 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 why he starts is never explained, but then as well as it being a starting point for the story, it […]
Juliet, 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 also happens to be the subject of Duncan’s musical obsession. Dom RobinsonReviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic […]
First Reformed centres around Toller, a former military chaplain (Ethan Hawke), who is wracked by grief over the death of his son. Mary (Amanda Seyfried) is a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, setting the plot in motion. This looks an intriguing drama from writer/director Paul Schrader, but it all […]
24 Hours To Live presents Travis Conrad (Ethan Hawke) with a pickle – he has… yes, 24 hours left to live. Travis is an assassin, seeking redemption after being given a second chance at life. Basically, if he finds and stamps out all the bad guys, he can live again… It also says “from the […]
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is based on a 1960s French comic book series called Valerian and Laureline, the two main characters, and while the title sounds as bizarre as you’d expect from Besson, it’s based on two of those volumes, The City of Shifting Waters and Empire of a Thousand Planets. […]
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No Comments »Maudie centres around the titular arthritic lady from Nova Scotia, Maud Lewis, played by Sally Hawkins, who works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community. Directed by Aisling Walsh, and also starring Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett, Billy MacLellan and Zachary Bennett, the […]
The Magnificent Seven, like Ben-Hur, is another of the current crop of remakes where I’ve never seen any previous version, whether the 1960 movie with Yul Brynner, the late ’90s TV series, or 1954’s original The Seven Samurai, by Akira Kurosawa. The plot is not a complex affair. It’s the 1870s, the Civil War has […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Antoine Fuqua, Billy Slaughter, Byung-hun Lee, Cam Gigandet, Carrie Lazar, Chris Pratt, Clint James, Denzel Washington, Dodge Prince, Emil Beheshti, Haley Bennett, Hideo Oguni, James Horner, Jody Mullins, Jonathan Joss, Luke Grimes, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Mark Ashworth, Martin Sensmeier, Matt Bomer, Matthew Posey, Nic Pizzolatto, Peter Sarsgaard, Richard Wenk, Roger Birnbaum, Shinobu Hashimoto, Simon Franglen, The Magnificent Seven, Todd Black, Vincent D'Onofrio, ethan hawke No Comments »In A Valley Of Violence is all ‘wild west’, gruff voices, sneering, sculpted goatees and a lot of shooting. Ethan Hawke is Paul, the mysterious stranger who steps into town. Following a random act of violence, this drags the joint made up of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge… Written and directed […]
The Phenom stars Johnny Simmons as Hopper Gibson, a man who can throws a baseball at one hundred miles per hour. However, then, this Major League rookie pitcher loses control over his pitching and is sent down to the minor leagues, where he begins sessions with unorthodox sports psychologist Dr. Mobley (Paul Giamatti). In the […]
The Magnificent Seven, with its cover version of The Animals’ House Of The Rising Sun, shows that Hollywood’s well of ideas has run dry yet again. Director Antoine Fuqua (Olympus Has Fallen) brings his modern vision to a classic story (it says here). With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist […]
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