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...
