Don’t Look Up first published by Sight and Sound When Michigan family man and astronomy professor Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) first realises what is coming, he spends the night checking and rechecking the calculations, and is quick, the following day, to call the White House with the bad news. Mindy’s urgency matches the speed of…
Review first published by Little White Lies “We don’t do new — we renovate!” So declares Mayor Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner), a salt-of-the-earth politician in New Jersey 1978, as he shows Sheik Abdullah (Michael Peña) around the Atlantic City building that he hopes to turn into a casino. Carmine’s big dream depends on Abdullah’s investment, but…
Review originally published in S&S May 2012 Synopsis: The future. Every year, the twelve Districts of totalitarian Panem must select an adolescent boy and girl by ballot for the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death. When her beloved younger sister Primrose is chosen, skilled archer Katniss volunteers to take her place, securing a…