Hell or High Water

In truth, I went in to see Hell or High Water with a sense of some trepidation. This movie comes from the pen of Taylor Sheridan, who brought us Sicario last year, a film that promised much, and delivered not much more than sweeping vistas punctuated by not very much else. The question here is…

Warcraft: The Beginning

Duncan Jones brings the world of Warcraft to life with Warcraft: The Beginning, the first in a trilogy that will continue in Warcraft: The Middle and conclude in Warcraft: The End. That last part I made up but it was joke that I simply couldn’t resist. Now that the riotous laughter is over with I’ll…

The Finest Hours

Craig Gillespie’s The Finest Hours is the fictionalised account of a true life tale involving the Coast Guard’s daring rescue of the crew of a doomed oil tanker in 1952. I’m not overly familiar with this story but that doesn’t really matter for the purposes of this film as it should hold together in how…

The Program

Stephen Frears The Program tells the story of 7 time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong through his rise and fall as the truth about his performance enhancing drug use comes to light. Ben Foster takes on the role of Lance Armstrong and gives a fantastic performance as the unsympathetic disgraced cyclist but the script…