Spike Lee presents an action-packed genre mashup that mostly misses the mark. Lee’s Vietnam war, adventure flick doesn’t fail in it’s attempts to entertain, but it certainly fails in competing […]

Author: Charlie Gaskell
AMPLIFY! 2020 – REVIEW: Falling
Viggo Mortenson’s family drama is mostly imperfect in its outcome, but it certainly awakens the potential promise of an Eastwoodesque directing career as momentary hints of able film crafting are […]
AMPLIFY! 2020: Lola / Lola vers la mer (2019)
Laurent Micheli’s debut feature Even Lovers Get the Blues (2016) follows a group of friends and their questions of love, life and the aching impulses that drive their desires. Micheli’s […]
Review: Throne of Blood (1957)
As everyone knows, the perfect way to spend self-isolation is to work through and revisit the catalogue of films from director Akira Kurosawa. A creator who has released an endless […]