In this new golden age of television that we are currently living in, the television industry is poaching some of cinema’s greatest minds more than ever to create their own long form stories after being restricted to the hour and a half to maximum four hours that film allows. The gap is getting increasingly small …
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Directed by Andrew Dominik Screenplay by Andrew Dominik based on the novel by Ron Hansen 2007, USA, UK, Canada “I’ve been a nobody all my life. I was the baby; I was the one they made promises to that they never kept. And ever since I …
#30: Cloud Atlas Directed by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski Written by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski Cloud Atlas is essentially a patchwork of narratives thematically linked with minor coincidences and recurring symbolism. With six stories spanning several centuries, Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact …
Killing Them Softly Directed by Andrew Dominik Written by Andrew Dominik USA, 2012 Four years after the United States economic bailout, the fallout has not abated, either among those in the 1% of earners or everyone else. And now that we have a bit of distance from the immediacy of the tanking economy, we can …
Killing Them Softly Written for the screen and directed by Andrew Dominik USA, 2012 Set against the backdrop of the 2008 US election, chunks of both major parties’ campaign rhetoric, as well as that of former President Bush, permeate select scenes of Killing Them Softly via background radios and televisions, entering like tumbleweeds rolling across …
Killing Them Softly Directed by Andrew Dominik Written by Andrew Dominik USA, 2012 New-Zealand-born Andrew Dominik is one of the best directors you’ve never heard of and with his filmography in Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James and now Killing Them Softly, he is one of a select few who have a talent for merging black comedy and character …
Undertones: Volume 8 As we approach the end of the decade, it seems fitting that this installment of Undertones concern itself with some of the most memorable film scores of the ‘00s. Though the films range in financial or critical success, and opinions may be divided as to the strength of some of the films …
