Miles Teller
Ultimately, Top: Gun Maverick preserves the atmosphere of a timeless era and places it in the modern-day, harnessing an infectious energy.
Despite solid source material in George Saunders’ short story, Spiderhead is a visually inert misfire and one of director Joseph Kosinsky’s lesser works.
After more than thirty years of service, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot.
While it’s a hard watch, Too Old To Die Young is Nicolas Winding Refn’s finest work – a series to be savoured, mulled over and discovered again and again.
Too Old To Die Young might be exhausting, but both of these episodes with their shocks and new emotional layers are incredibly rewarding to watch.
Too Old To Die Young is an exhausting watch, we can only assume there will be a big reward at the end for us loyal viewers.
Though beautifully crafted, Too Old To Die Young is a slow and frustrating watch that’s hopefully worth it in the end.
The Devil and The Lovers serve as a fascinating double-bill of Too Old to Die Young but it remains to be seen whether the series will grow into its own.
Away from the hype and the Twitter hubbub and the behind the scenes stories, Fantastic Four is still a very bad movie. Hopefully, it hasn’t put the final nail in the coffin of perspective Fantastic Four adaptations.
Only the Brave is more concerned with its traditional gender politics than making any grander statement on man’s relationship with nature.
War Dogs is a hyper-masculine film that, offensively but not surprisingly, uses its main female character simply as a plot device.
Every year, ten movies are bestowed the honor of becoming nominated by the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. Many of these films will already have had various successes throughout the year: good festival attendance, box office success and probably received other prestigious awards.
Fantastic Four is a film that people wanted to hate from the start. First, there was the controversial casting of Michael B. Jordan as the traditionally white character Johnny Storm; shortly following this was the discovery that Victor Von Doom was a computer hacker instead of a brilliant inventor; finally, there was the casting itself, which involved younger characters just finishing high school, whereas most adaptations of the story present the Fantastic Four as adults.
Why do we strive for greatness? What pushes someone to practice something over and over, until his hands bleed, until he perfects it? Can this intensity be brought out in all of us?