Film Review – Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Title – Bringing Out the Dead (1999) Director – Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas) Cast – Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Cliff Curtis Plot – Haunted and […]
Category Archives: Film reviews: Drama
Film Review – An American Pickle (2020)
Title – An American Pickle (2020) Director – Brandon Trost (feature debut) Cast – Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook, Molly Evensen, Jorma Taccone Plot – Preserved in a vat of pickles […]
Film Review – The Devil All the Time (2020)
Title – The Devil All the Time (2020) Director – Antonio Campos (Afterschool) Cast – Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Eliza Scanlen, Sebastian Stan, Bill Skarsgård, Haley […]
Classic Review – Memories of Murder (2003)
Title – Memories of Murder (2003) Director – Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) Cast – Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim, Jae-ho Song Plot – Based on a series of real-life […]
Film Review – Election (1999)
Title – Election (1999) Director – Alexander Payne (Nebraska) Cast – Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Delaney Driscoll Plot – Quietly spoken high school teacher Jim McAllister […]
Film Review – I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Title – I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) Director – Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York) Cast – Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons, Toni Collette, David Thewlis Plot – A young newly […]
Classic Review – High and Low (1963)
Title – High and Low (1963) Director – Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) Cast – Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takeshi Katô, Kyôko Kagawa Plot – Wealthy Japanese businessman Kingo Gondo (Mifune) […]
Film Review – Clemency (2019)
Title – Clemency (2019) Director – Chinonye Chukwu (alaskaLand) Cast – Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge, Wendell Pierce, Richard Schiff Plot – Prison warden Bernadine Williams (Woodard) finds herself struggling to […]
Classic Review – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Title – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Director – Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront) Cast – Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden Plot – Troubled by recent events […]
Film Review – Babyteeth (2019)
Title – Babyteeth (2019) Director – Shannon Murphy (feature debut) Cast – Eliza Scanlan, Ben Mendelsohn, Essie Davis, Toby Wallace Plot – Seriously ill teenager Milla (Scanlan) and her parents […]
