Tag: War

• Darkest Hour Review – 21st century greasepaint

  

  Get this right, Gary Oldman ain’t actually a really fat dude, but in this film right here he is. Mind blowing right? That someone can just do that and make it a film. He’s not fat in real life. Wow.

  E Warren

  January 17, 2018

  Film, Review

  Cinema, Darkest Hour, Drama, English, Film, Films, Focus Features, Gary Oldman, Joe Wright, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Perfect World, Period, Review, Three Stars, Universal Pictures, War, Working Title

• Dunkirk Review – One for all

  

  Seems like Chris Nolan been listening to his critics. They say he struggles to build compelling and emotionally nuanced characters, he goes and creates a film without any. They say that his plots are tightly wound but don’t hold up under scrutiny, Dunkirk is virtually plotless. They say he mixes dialogue waaaaaaaaay too fucking low in the edit and he makes a whole film where his approach actually make sense. If it weren’t for the fact that this a full on onslaught of an action film it’d probably be unrecognisable.

  E Warren

  July 24, 2017

  Film, Review

  Action, Aneurin Barnard, British, Christopher Nolan, Cinema, Dunkirk, Film, Films, Fionn Whitehead, Five Stars, Harry Styles, Hoyte van Hoytema, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Syncopy, Tom Hardy, War, Warner Bros

• Their Finest: Its own propaganda

  

  Chris Nolan’s Dunkirk is coming out later this year. I hope it’s good. The film websites are already full of the news, Director of Photography Hoyte Van Hoytema, manhandling the IMAX camera to capture war’s viscera. The trailer for it actually was played before my screening. Maybe we’ll someday get a film about its production […]

  E Warren

  April 25, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review, Uncategorized

  Bill Nighy, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Film, Films, Gemma Arterton, Lone Scherfig, Metatext, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Sam Claflin, Their Finest, Three star, War