Thank You For Smoking first published by EyeforFilm, 16 June 2006 Even though he is accustomed to being despised for his role as professional apologist for the tobacco industry, Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) is having a particularly tough week. As he helps his 12-year-old son Joey (Cameron Bright) prepare for a school presentation on why…
The Woman King first published by Sight & Sound, November edition 2022 Review: There is a paradox in the kenning-like title of this latest feature from director Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees, 2008; Beyond the Lights, 2014; The Old Guard, 2020). A ‘woman king’ is surely a queen – but unlike Shantay (Jayme…
Assault on Precinct 13 (AP13) first published by Movie Gazette It is a story that has been told many times before: in the Seventies, Hollywood’s studio system gave way to an auteur-oriented movement embracing creativity and the counterculture, and producing some of the most innovative and confronting films ever to have emerged from the United States….