The Review at the End of the Universe
2017 was another year of change for Kneel Before Blog. The biggest change was that we switched to a star rating system for film around halfway through the year. TV will continue to be rated out of 10 but films will be rated on a scale of 1-5 stars as is the accepted standard for…
A group of misfits assigned to the bottom table of a wedding try to make the best of their less than ideal situation in Jeffrey Blitz’ Table 19. There was a lot of potential in this idea. Following the people at a wedding who aren’t important to the happy couple and get a polite invite…
Ben Affleck plays an an autistic accountant who moonlights as an action hero. Or is it an action hero who moonlights as an accountant in Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant? Whatever side of the fence you think Affleck’s mathematical savant Christian Wolff falls on, the commonality is that he’s autistic and that fact underpins so much…
Now that I’ve finally finished all of my Edinburgh International Film Festival reviews I thought I would cap it all off by sharing my 5 personal favourites from my time at the festival. I saw a lot of films and had so many great experiences but there are 5 that stand out. There is a…
If, at the beginning of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, you’d told me my favourite celluloid presentation would be a movie about a dancing assassin and the lovably crazy woman that falls for him, I’m not sure I wouldn’t have called the folks in white coats to come see you, but here we are with…
Marjane Satrapi’s The Voices casts Ryan Reynolds as a mentally disturbed factory worker who takes things a little too far and causes the death of women that he works with. It’s been a while since I’ve seen Ryan Reynolds in anything but I’ve always found him to be a really engaging leading man who seems…
Daniel Barnz’ Cake is the story of Claire (Jennifer Aniston) becoming fascinated by the suicide of a woman she barely knows in her support group as it reminds her of her own personal tragedy. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about this film being snubbed from the Oscars and how much of an injustice…
Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods adapts the famous stage musical of the same name and throws it onto the big screen for all to see. The basic story is that a Witch (Meryl Streep) enlists a Baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) to bring her magical items from various fairy tales in order…
