Pitched as a labour of love for cinema’s most eternally youthful leading man, Keanu (“I know Kung-Fu”) Reeves, 47 Ronin has finally shown some real and highly promising signs of life after production delays knocked the film back from its initial November 2012 release date. Loosely based around the infamous true story of the 18th […]
BLOOD & SPLENDOUR Three words describe the state of Scandinavian cinema today, gritty, uncompromising, and original. Easy Money is the latest in a long line of highly accomplished hardboiled crime thrillers to drag itself out of the depraved depths of Europe’s criminal underbelly. Presented by cinematic crime lord Martin Scorsese and directed by Daniel Espinosa, […]
In Greek mythology ‘Argo’ was the name of the ship upon which Jason and the Argonauts ventured forth on their voyage to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece. Ben Affleck’s Argo portrays an undertaking of equally insurmountable odds, as a group of CIA operatives strive to rescue six stranded US embassy workers from a late seventies […]