Cannes: Sicario review
Director Denis Villeneuve has carved out a moderately successful career of late, making polished thrillers about Serious Subjects with a pair of capital Ss. His latest, Sicario suggests he has no intention of diverging from this path. This is border thriller, centred on an elite group of mostly American special agents carrying out a clandestine … Read more
Into the Woods review
Into the Wood‘s is the latest of Stephen Sondheim‘s musicals to reach the big screen, an adaptation of the 1987 show set in a set in a storybook world and intertwining multiple Brothers Grimm fairytales with a new central plot and characters. Sondheim composed an additional, eventually unused, song for the film version, for Meryl Streep‘s witch character, … Read more