On our latest podcast dispatch, we discuss Paul Greengrass’ white-knuckle hijacking thriller, Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks, the enigmatic documentary The Institute, and Fernando takes us through his favourite discoveries at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Read more »
When we hear the word pirate, the image most of us bring to mind is someone in a billowing white shirt, maybe with a peg leg, or patch over one eye, and almost certainly a sword or cutlass. Maybe we imagine Errol Flynn’s Captain Blood or Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow. Pirates in popular culture […] Read more »
Tom Hanks leads a convincing charge for his third Best Actor Oscar as real-life merchant seaman Capt. Richard Phillips, whose container ship is overpowered by Somali pirates in Paul Greengrass’ breathless and exhilarating thriller. While Hollywood spent much of the last decade obsessing over the rum-swigging dandy pirates personified by a swaggering Johnny Depp, the […] Read more »
The creative siblings behind The Matrix trilogy, Lana and Andy Wachowski, team up with German filmmaker Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) for a bold cinematic adaptation of David Mitchell’s equally ambitious novel, Cloud Atlas, that proves sprawling, provocative, and epic in scope, while also likely to alienate large portions of its target audience. As is […] Read more »