Tag: brendan gleeson
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A Trip Back To: The Village (2004)
By Christian DiMartino Around the release of M. Night Shyamalan’s Old, I decided to revisit his disastrous The Happening. With the upcoming release of A Knock at the Cabin, I decided to revisit Shyamalan’s perhaps the beginning of the end, The Village. Here’s the thing, the guy can miss. No doubt about it, he’s made…
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Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth
It’s pretty safe to say that we are all probably aware of William Shakespeare, and with that awareness comes the awareness of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. At some point in time, you were probably forced to read it in school, or you have seen one of the many adaptations, whether it be on the stage or the…
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Great Movies: In Bruges
By Christian DiMartino I don’t know if I’ve ever seen hit-men quite like the ones at the center of In Bruges. That’s not to say that the profession has never been the subject of comedy before, yet here it’s done a little differently. There are more to these men than what appears on the surface.…
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Review: In the Heart of the Sea
By Christian DiMartino Ron Howard is a great filmmaker. His career has been all over the place, but yet even the films that most hate, I end up enjoying. So it brings me true sadness to say that I didn’t exactly enjoy his latest film, In the Heart of the Sea. It isn’t necessarily bad, but…