Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan tells the true life tale of the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation also known as “Operation Dynamo” where nearly 400,000 soldiers were successfully evacuated in Dunkirk. The scale of this event makes it tricky to commit to film since it took place over a relatively large period of time and involved many different moving parts…

The BFG

Steven Spielberg brings the Roald Dahl classic, The BFG into the world of live action with an adaptation faithful to the original story. Steven Spielberg seems to be the perfect director to bring a Roald Dahl story to life considering that he is able to capture the imagination in similar ways through a very different…

Bridge of Spies

Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies is a tale of hope and integrity amid a backdrop of Cold War era paranoia. It all begins when a man named Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is arrested under suspicion of being a Soviet spy and awaits trial to determine the extent of his guilt. In an attempt to prove…

On the Silver Screen – The Gunman

Pierre Morel’s The Gunman casts Sean Penn as a sniper on a mercenary assassination team forced to go into hiding after a successful kill shot puts him on a hit list. Following in Liam Neeson’s aging action hero footsteps Sean Penn does a really capable job of doing the action hero thing. He has an…