Midnight Special (2016). D/W: Jeff Nichols. DP: Adam Stone. Starring: Michael Shannon/Kirsten Dunst/Joel Edgerton/Jaeden Lieberher/Adam Driver/Sam Shepard/Bill Camp/Scott Haze/Paul Sparks/David Jensen. Despite the shadow of Batman vs. Superman, the little films are making splashes at the box office this spring. Among those like 10 Cloverfield Lane, is the new film from writer/director Jeff Nichols, Midnight Special. The…
Down In The Bunker
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016). D: Dan Trachtenberg. DP: Jeff Cutter. W: Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken, and Damien Chazelle. Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead/John Goodman/John Gallagher Jr. I will admit I am negligent when it comes to the horror genre. However, I would not classify 10 Cloverfield Lane or its tangential predecessor, 2008’s Cloverfield, as horror, more as thriller with a…
Yesterday’s Story
Edge of Tomorrow (2014). D: Doug Liman. DP: Dion Beebe. W: Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth (based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel All You Need Is Kill.) Starring: Tom Cruise/Emily Blunt/Brendan Gleeson/Bill Paxton/Jonas Armstrong/Tony Way/Kick Gurry/Charlotte Riley/Noah Taylor/Franz Drameh/Dragomir Mrsic/Masayoshi Haneda. The new edition in the Tom Cruise canon of movies has arrived. Edge of…
The Beginning of the End…
Prometheus (2012). D: Ridley Scott. DP: Dariusz Wolski. W: Damon Lindelof & Jon Spaihts. Starring: Noomi Raplace/Michael Fassbender/Charlize Theron/Idris Elba/ Guy Pearce/Logan Marshall-Green/Sean Harris/Rafe Spall/Benedict Wong/Kate Dickie. With a film like this it is hard to know where to begin unpacking. Highly anticiapted and theorized about, Prometheus marks Ridley Scott’s return to the Alien stories.…