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 …
Westerns are one of those rare, uniquely American film genres. They dominated film screens for years, were amongst some of the finest stories told in film, and they are films that have created some of the most compelling characters in film history. But somewhere around the brilliant, sprawling mini-series Lonesome Dove in 1989, the western …
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 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 …
Well it’s a new day and here is yet another montage, the second in two days. Lucky for us, it’s just as great. Yesterday we showed you A Brief History of Title Design. This time however, it’s the work of youtuber Hatinhand. He brings us a montage sequence of amazing movie ending spoilers. Overall there …
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 …
59- Capturing the Friedmans (2003) Directed by Andrew Jarecki Genre: Documentary On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family until on one Thanksgiving Day, when that happy façade came to a crashing halt. After the local police discovered the dad had engaged in the buying and selling of child pornography, they questioned …