The 33

Patricia Riggen’s The 33 tells the story of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for 69 days back in 2010 and chronicles the collaborative effort to free them. Films like this are always iffy for me since movies are broadly made to turn a profit it seems a bit manipulative to capitalise on a…

On the Silver Screen – Focus

Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s Focus casts Will Smith as a con man named Nicky who takes a young woman named Jess (Margot Robbie) under his wing and teaches her the tricks that he’s perfected. If you watch the trailer then that’s the film that it would have you believe but the end result is…