The Review at the End of the Universe
Brad Furman’s The Infiltrator tells the true story Robert Mazur; a man who went undercover to uncover large scale drug and money laundering operations. Bryan Cranston plays Robert Mazur and his performance can’t be described as anything but magnetic. He nails every necessary beat throughout and crafts a compelling presence that you can’t help but…
Years after graduating high school, the former most popular kid in school reconnects with someone who was pretty much the opposite and is caught up in an intricate plot that threatens national security in Rawson Marshall Thuber’s Central Intelligence As stories go it’s horribly generic and you’ll be able to see every plot beat come…
Rob Letterman’s Goosebumps brings the children’s horror novels to life -literally- as the creatures created by R.L. Stine (Jack Black) leap off the page to terrorise an unsuspecting town. When I first heard what the premise of this film would be I wasn’t at all optimistic. It seems like the sort of low rent nonsense that Jack…
Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies is a tale of hope and integrity amid a backdrop of Cold War era paranoia. It all begins when a man named Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is arrested under suspicion of being a Soviet spy and awaits trial to determine the extent of his guilt. In an attempt to prove…
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman marks my first cinema viewing of 2015 and we’re off to a good start. Michael Keaton plays washed up former superhero actor Riggan Thomson who is trying to relaunch his career as a serious actor. Michael Keaton is the ideal choice to play this character as it’s something that arguably mirrors…
