NAPOLEON balances the epic and intimate while showing the absurdity of tyrants
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
History is not moved by the vision of great men but by the pettiness of small ones.
THE WORLD TO COME uses a perilous 19th century setting to deliver its love story
by Matthew McCafferty, Staff Writer
The World to Come is not the first movie to show us what life was like in the 1800s. But it does deserve its credit…
Pieces of a Woman, or The Problem with Shia LaBeouf
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó
Written by Kata Wéber
Starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn
Running time 2 hours 6 minutes
MPAA rating: R
by Jaime Davis, The Fixer
One of the things I love most about art, either viewing it or making it, is the release that can come from it. By making something of our own or contemplating something someone else made, we can feel lighter, or maybe we can make sense of an experience we’re going through, or maybe just feel seen and understood.
Read MoreMr. Jones
Written by Andrea Chalupa
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby and Peter Sarsgaard
Running time: 2 hours and 21 minutes
by Fiona Underhill
The pre-war period of the 1930s is one of the most fascinating of the twentieth century and, in terms of film, has perhaps most famously been explored through Hitchcock’s espionage thrillers eg. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), The Secret Agent (1936) and Sabotage (1937). After WWI, nationalism and fascism rose in Germany, Spain and Italy in the 20s and 30s, at roughly the same time as the rise of communism in Soviet Russia, meaning that, like the Cold War period that followed WWII, it was an era of distrust and uncertainty. While news of the Holocaust emerged after WWII, other horrors which occurred outside of ‘war’ time are less well known. Such is the case with the Holodomor – a Ukrainian famine that occurred in 1932-1933 and was man-made (deliberately inflicted by Soviet Russia), in which the death toll is estimated to be between 3 and 7.5 million.
Read MoreFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Directed by David Leitch (THE ATOMIC BLONDE director, YES!)
Written by A Trio of middle-aged white dudes
Starring: The Rock, Crank, Idris Elba and Vanessa Kirby
Runtime: 2 hours 15 minutes (I know!)
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport
“What’s your skin regimen? You look like Shirley Temple.” -Ryan HEARTTHROB Reynolds
I have seen one and half of Fast and The Furious flicks.
Makes ya kinda wonder why I am writing this review, huh? Welllll…the press screening was in King of Prussia (KOP), which is basically like saying I trekked to East Bolivia. In order to travel to KOP one has to utilize the dreaded 76 westbound strip. Despite the KOP theater only being about twenty miles from Philadelphia, it has at times, taken upwards of two hours to travel there due to the miserable highway. Several MJ contribs lacked interest in experiencing this hellacious journey for this particular flick. Therefore, I was tasked with bringing you (aka grabbed the shortest straw), our dear readers the scoop on director David Leitch’s (Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2) latest raucous undertaking.
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