Denis Villeneuve is an extraordinary director, just look at his body of work, and this film is no exception. Sicario is a brilliant thriller based around the US government’s operations to take down Mexican drug cartels that will keep your eyes fixed on the screen. As the film is told from the perspective of Emily…

To take something over 400 years old and be able to create a fresh, exciting new adaptation of it is something of a feat. The source material for this film is obviously extremely strong, but Justin Kurzel elevates it into a cinematic epic on a grand scale. The age-old story of Macbeth’s quest to fulfill…

Sir Ridley Scott has faced a bit of a lull in his career over the past decade with most of his films not being huge critical or commercial successes, but when you’re the director such classics as Blade Runner, Alien and Gladiator (to name a few), you are sure to bounce back, and that’s just…

Adapting a true story, especially one containing such tragedy, to film can often be difficult, placing restrictions on the narrative and the approach as the filmmakers try to be as respectful as they can in recounting real-life events. This is especially true in Baltasar Kormákur’s ‘Everest’, a film whose greatest downfall is arguably a result…

To tell you whether a film about a terminally ill character is happy or sad is seemingly to spoil the ending. This film, however, earns both tears and laughs in a perfect balancing act between the funny and the serious, that both emotions will occur even prior to the film’s conclusion. Visually and narratively speaking,…