Tag: Cillian Murphy
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Anna, an action movie starring a woman
Anna puts a woman at the front of an action packed spy thriller. It’s full of fight scenes and assassinations, double crosses and underhanded tricks. Most everything about the plot is unrealistic, because action movies by definition are unrealistic. But this one is carelessly unrealistic.
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Oppenheimer: a personal reaction
Oppenheimer brought up of a lot of personal history for me. I was alive during World War II. I was alive when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. I remember the end of the war as a time of jubilation in my family home. There was a lot in the film that…
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Review: The Party
The Party brings a dysfunctional collection of people who know each other’s secrets into the same room. It’s a wild and wonderful thing to watch.