Colin Farrell
Movie Review: The Beguiled
The Beguiled is as surprising and thought-provoking a film as an exquisitely pruned rose bush flourishing atop a bitter iceberg. It’s elegant. It’s melodramatic. It’s icy, blunt, and deeply silent. But with that, it’s also strangely welcoming. The movie begins three years into the American Civil War, when we are invited into the gates of the sunlit, musty Farnsworth Seminary to spectate as seven w...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Lobster
Having not seen Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos’ critically lauded 2009 film Dogtooth, I legitimately had no expectations going into his latest film. Upon leaving the theater I was glad I knew nothing, because it only enhanced the strange and hypnotic, fever-dream-like viewing experience that was The Lobster. The film is set not so far in the future, where everyone without a partner is forc...[Read More]
Movie Review: Winter’s Tale
I held a great deal of hope for Winter’s Tale, but it ultimately fell flat. It had the makings of greatness, following slightly with the premise of C.S. Lewis’ Screw Tape Letters. Unfortunately, I found myself bored and wondering how this turned out so badly with such a wonderful cast. Most disappointing was Colin Farrell as the lead, Peter Lake. Seems to me he has a way of making many films subpa...[Read More]
Movie Review: Saving Mr. Banks
Know that when you go see Saving Mr. Banks, you are not going to see a Tom Hanks film. You are going to see an Emma Thompson film. And you just might be awfully glad you did, my friends. Truth be told, I’m not a huge Disney fan. I enjoy the Disney movies I watch, though I haven’t seen all (or even most) of them. I do, however, admire the story behind P.L. Travers and her treasured Mary Poppins, an...[Read More]