After spending his youth as a revolutionary demolitions expert “Bob” (Leonardo DiCaprio) has been living under the radar with his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti). That is until old adversary Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn) tracks them down. One Battle After Another is true to its title and careers from one tense showdown to another. … Continue reading One Battle After Another
When a young man named Leland P. Fitzgerald (Ryan Gosling) murders a special needs child he is sent to a juvenile detention centre. There his teacher Pearl Madison (Don Cheadle) tries to help him to open up and explain why he would do such a thing. Meanwhile those impacted by the crime try to come … Continue reading The United States Of Leland
Gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) falls deeply in love with Jackie (Katy O’Brien), a bodybuilder passing through town on her way to a competition in Las Vegas. But their intense love will explode into violence when it crashes into Lou’s troubled family. Set in New Mexico in 1989 this is a grungy noir thriller filled … Continue reading Love Lies Bleeding
A sprawling frontier Western beginning in 1859 that tells multiple converging storylines that all centre on the town of Horizon. Horizon itself does not yet exist. It is a dream sold to would be settlers of perfectly pristine untouched land in the San Pedro Valley which just happens to be a sacred location for the … Continue reading Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
I will be rather blunt here and say that “Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver’s biggest accomplishment is that it manages to be worse than the rather awful Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child Of Fire. What follows is probably less a review and more of a diatribe. But this is not a … Continue reading Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
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