month : 11/2019 7 results
3.5 Score

Knives Out hides a pointed satire beneath cloak of mystery

Movie review: Knives Out The director behind Brick, Looper and the Last Jedi plays a clever trick on Agatha Christie cliché by framing a murder mystery as morality play that examines the corpse of the patriarchy, and the idea of inherited privilege.

Chris Buck was on the verge of quitting, then he won an Oscar

Interview with Chris Buck, co-diretor of Frozen The Kansas-born director was finishing Frozen when tragedy struck in 2013. "I was ready to kind of say: Cartoons are a joke. Why am I doing this?” Yet, in persevering he found purpose, and a deep belief he was put on this planet for a reason: “to bring hope and inspiration.”
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Review: Ford v Ferrari restores Le Mans lore

Movie review: Ford v Ferrari Director James Mangold creates a powerful dramatic engine with Christian Bale and Matt Damon as twin pistons in a turbo-diesel, bringing a dependable, constant chug of power that just keeps combusting in the analog-inspired Ford v Ferrari.  
3Score

Review: Midway torpedoes MAGA hat hate

Movie review: Midway Roland Emmerich shows uncharacteristic restraint in his ode to the Battle of Midway, an against-all-odds story of courage and bravery that truly made America “great."

Movie review: The Lighthouse

Two men arrive on a lonely island to run the lighthouse in this psychological horror story that will have you researching its secrets
4 Score

Terminator: Dark Fate rebirths a franchise in molten feminist form

Movie review: Terminator: Dark Fate The saga of Sarah Connor picks up in the present day, where the robot apocalypse remains a looming threat, but the unbridled power of fearless women proves too potent to crush.
4Score

Movie review: MARGARET ATWOOD A Word after a Word after a Word is Power

This documentary examines how a Canadian literary icon went from being a much-heralded writer to becoming the prophet of dystopia in a post-Trump world