A Quiet Place Part II

John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Part II follows up on the landmark first entry with more trials for the Abbott family to endure while making as little noise as possible. A Quiet Place stood out because of how it approached storytelling. Without being able to use dialogue to deliver what the audience needed to know,…

Free Fire

A gun deal goes horribly wrong and results in an extended shoot out between rival gangs in Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire. My quick summary of the story above is pretty much all there is to it. The gun deal goes badly and the two sides take shots at one another until the film ends. Stretching out…

Anthropoid

Sean Ellis’ Anthropoid tells the story of the operation of the same name devised to assassinate a high ranking Nazi named Reinhard Heydrich (Detlef Bothe). Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy play parachutists Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik respectively; the pair tasked with carrying out this dangerous mission. The two actors do an admirable job in…

In the Heart of the Sea

Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea takes its inspiration from the shipwreck story that reportedly inspired the Herman Melville novel Moby Dick. The fate of the Essex was turned into a non fiction book in the year 2000. I imagine that this book is largely the source material for this film as the…