The Review at the End of the Universe
Terry George’s The Promise tells the story of a young medical student trying to avoid being caught in the genocide of his people during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. Genocide is always going to be a tricky subject to put to film as it is obviously a very emotive subject. The events depicted…
Idris Elba stretches his action legs in James Watkins’ Bastille Day as a gruff CIA Agent working to stop a terrorist attack in France. Some may argue that this film is exploitative considering the real life situation in France that occurred in November 2015 but this film was reportedly made before that so it seems…
Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk is a fictionalised telling of the amazing feat performed by French high-wire artist Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) when he illegally put a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and walked across it. This particular story was the subject of the critically acclaimed documentary Man…
