Tag: Cate Blanchett
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The New Boy: The Light That Would Not Stay Buried
Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy opens with a wound and closes with a silence. In between, it breathes through the dust and fire of mid-1940s Australia, where the land seems to mourn the children taken from it. The film is not a history lesson—it is a reckoning. It does not explain the Stolen Generations; it…
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Black Bag: Secrets Best Left Unzipped
The world of espionage is far from clean. It’s filled with whispers in the dark, coded messages scribbled on napkins, and a constant sense of paranoia that every shadow may hide a loaded gun. Steven Soderbergh’s *Black Bag* explores the murky depths of this genre, weaving together a complex narrative of betrayal, surveillance, and simmering…
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Rumours: A Gory, Gaudy, Global Game of Telephone
Movie Info: Ricocheting between comedy, apocalyptic horror, and swooning soap opera, Rumours follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies at the annual G7 summit, where they attempt to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis. With unexpected, uproarious performances from a brilliant ensemble cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, and Charles…
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“The House With a Clock In Its Walls” Is Not an Overly Scary Kids Classic
Clock is light on the psychology and heavy on the magic and mythology. Clock is a pre-teen film that only wants to lightly scare and not traumatize.
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“Ocean’s 8” Hits the Glass Ceiling
All the Ocean films do share the fact that their star powered casts are there to have fun, cash a paycheck– and if luck be a lady, make a good movie. The con is that is they convince the audience of the same.