Blog posts tagged with "Oscar Isaac"
Annihilation
In just two films director Alex Garland has emerged as the sci-fi director du jour. With all due respect to Denis Villeneuve (who’s created two instant sci-fi classics in 2016’s Arrival and 2017’s Blade Runner 2049), Garland ...
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Christmas is nearly here – it's a holiday that's synonymous with family. Thanks to Disney a new family tradition is currently underway – Star Wars. One of Hollywood’s biggest and oldest film franchises, when you strip it down, instills ...
X-Men: Apocalypse
We’re not even halfway through the year but 2016 has already produced three superhero films. Bryan Singer’s latest, X-Men: Apocalypse is the fourth comic book entry this year. It is also the ninth entry in Fox’s X-Men ...
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
It's been 32 years since audiences have seen the likes of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew). And despite the major missteps of the prequel trilogy, fans hoped Lucas ...
Ex Machina
In what can be considered a companion piece to Neill Blomkamp's Chappie, Ex Machina is the film that Chappie aspired to be but never accomplished. Both films focus on the idea of artificial intelligence and sentience within a robot ...
A Most Violent Year
At some point while screening director J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year things became confusing. The director's follow-up to the brilliant All Is Lost reeled me in from the moment Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues (Make ...
Inside Llewyn Davis
With Inside Llewyn Davis, this is not the first time that the Coen brothers have explored music in their films. Their hit feature, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, was made with folk music in mind - specifically bluegrass. The music was ...