Tagged: matthias schoenaerts
This review will not be simply a list of things Gina Prince-Bythewood’s adaptation of Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández’s The Old Guard changes from the source material. But fans of the graphic miniseries will take note almost immediately that Charlize...
This review originally ran as part of our TIFF 2018 coverage, where the film premiered under the title Kursk. I always find it difficult to write about a submarine movie without writing about submarine movies as a genre. My fascination...
One of the more difficult things to accomplish in film is to make a viewer feel the climate, temperature or weather conditions inhabited by the characters. We tend to watch movies while seated comfortably in climate-controlled rooms. The last thing...
I always find it difficult to write about a submarine movie without writing about submarine movies as a genre. My fascination with the format probably comes from the fact that, while the tropes are clearly defined, there aren’t enough such...
It’s 2018 and the spy/espionage thriller long ago became a fully recognizable genre of its own. So, how do you make one today without it being derivative? With the thorny and stylish Red Sparrow, director Francis Lawrence admits that, in most...
