Ralph Fiennes
-
28 Years Later Review – A New Filmmaking Style From Boyle Doesn’t Change The Intensity I’ve Come To Know From This Franchise
In the early 2000s, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland took the world by storm with their revisioning of the zombie genre. They called their antagonists if you were, the infested, because they were infected by a Nero disease. These weren’t… Continue reading
-
My Top 10 Films of 2024, Plus Honorable Mentions
By Dan Skip Allen My Honorable Mentions In No Particular Order: Nickel Boys, Tuesday, The Piano Lesson, Jim Henson: Idea Man, Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine As Light, September 5, Furiosa: A Mad Max Story, Will &… Continue reading
-
The Return Review- An Adaptation Of The Final Moments Of “The Odyssey ” That Lacks Anything Epic
by Nick Nitkowski My introduction to “The Odyssey” is not quite in the way you would expect. I actually never read the poems by Homer in school. It was never even taught to me in any class that I can… Continue reading
-
Conclave Review- An Achievement In Filmmaking, By Berger, And Acting, By Fiennes & Tucci, I’ve Rarely Seen This Year, Thus Far
I was a catholic when I was a kid growing up in Massachusetts and I’ve followed these beliefs more often than not the rest of my life. It’s something I’ve had an off-again-on-again relationship with Catholicism. When I heard about… Continue reading
-
The 96th Academy Awards Nominated Live Action Short Films Review
Live Action Shorts The After This film stars David Oyelowo, as a father who seems happily married to a little girl. A random gunman starts shooting people and kills his wife and child. This drives the man to despair and… Continue reading
-
The Wonderful Life of Henry Sugar Review- Great Production Design Doesn’t Make Up For Slow and Monotonous Dialogue
Wes Anderson is considered one of the best directors working today. He has made some amazing films including Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel as well as the stop-motion animated film The Fantastic Mr. Fox based on the… Continue reading
-
The King’s Man Review
The King’s Man is a prequel to the widely popular and financially successful film Kingsman: The Secret Service from 2014 starring Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, and Michael Caine. Both films are directed by Matthew Vaughn. The latest Kingsman film is the origin story of how… Continue reading
-
No Time To Die Review-The Perfect Conclusion to the Daniel Craig Era of Bond
It’s been a long time since the original release date for No Time To Die. It was supposed to come out around a year and a half ago, but then the pandemic shut down all theaters, so many films moved release… Continue reading
-
Why should the Oscar add nominees to the acting categories?
I believe The Academy Awards should reevaluate how many nominees should be given in the acting categories. Continue reading
From the Fourth Row! 