The Review at the End of the Universe
Hot on the heels of Ben Hur, Hollywood continues its headlong rush to remake every film in its back catalogue with The Magnificent Seven, itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. Yet again this is a film no-one was calling out for, but with director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, The Equalizer) at the helm,…
Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan deals with some big ideas such as life choices and different ways that a family can be constructed. Greta Gerwig’s Maggie is a fiercely determined academic who is driven to have a child of her own without necessarily having a man in her life. She chooses to go down the route…
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is the story of Mason and chronicles his life from the age of five through to eighteen. Filmed over the course of twelve years to have the actors age naturally the story follows Mason (Ellar Coltrane) through the major events of his childhood and ends when he graduates from high school and…
