Batman Begins (2005) Director: Christopher Nolan “And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.” ★★★★☆ As the first part of a new Batman series by Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins, perhaps more than any other film, helped spawned the renaissance of super hero movies, a…
Month: September 2019
Spectre (2015) Film Review
Spectre (2015) Director: Sam Mendes “A license to kill is also a license not to kill” ★★☆☆☆ Sadly Christopher Nolan declined to direct the twenty-fourth James Bond film, and Spectre was mired in development hell for years. The fourth Bond film featuring Daniel Craig (one which he hoped would be…
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby (2013) Director: Baz Luhrmann ★★☆☆☆ This adaptation of The Great Gatsby takes considerable liberties from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s far superior novel. It is a forgettable and unfortunate cinematic version of an otherwise the brilliant novel. I was truly disappointed in this orgiastic homage to modern indulgence. Leonardo…
Skyfall (2012) Film Review
Skyfall (2012) Director: Sam Mendes “Well, I like to do some things the old-fashioned way.” ★★★★★ Since the dawn of the 21st century James Bond has been viewed with a heavy degree of cultural suspicion –Is he too violent? Too sexist? Too misogynistic? Too cliche? Has he become a parody…