Waiting for the Barbarians, 2020. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Sam Reid, Harry Melling, and Bill Milner. SYNOPSIS: A Magistrate working in a distant outpost begins to question his loyalty to the empire. J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians is already a novel […]
Movie Review – The Limehouse Golem (2017)
The Limehouse Golem, 2017. Directed by Juan Carlos Medina. Starring Bill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, Eddie Marsan, Daniel Mays, and Sam Reid. SYNOPSIS: A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical so-called Golem – must be responsible. Karl Marx […]
Blu-ray Review – The Limehouse Golem (2016)
The Limehouse Golem, 2016. Directed by Juan Carlos Medina. Starring Douglas Booth, Olivia Cooke, Eddie Marsan, Sam Reid, Bill Nighy, Daniel Mays, María Valverde, and Sam Reid. SYNOPSIS: A killer stalks pre-Jack the Ripper Victorian London and a police inspector must solve the case in order to prevent a perceived injustice. The gloomy moonlit streets […]
