Richard Linklater has been on quite a kick recently with his latest films. Blue Moon detailed the opening night of the musical Oklahoma! and Larry Hart’s (Ethan Hawke) struggle with his collaborator Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott), moving on. His follow-up is Nouvelle Vague, aptly named as the film
Blue Moon's driving factor is its simplicity. Director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, Hit Man) utilizes it in such a way that its simple setting--Sardi's--becomes a character itself. The limited scenery pulls focus to the characters set within it, all of them anchored by a tour de force performance
Hit Man Movie Review - Glen Powell Shines As A Fake Hitman Hit Man really is a tale of two movies, but not in the way that phrase normally means. The first half of the film is a whimsical ride through the "honeymoon" phase of someone and their new career direction. The second half morphs into a
Lost in the Reel's video review for Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age ChildhoodRichard Linklater has one helluva filmography… from his crowd-pleasing comedies like "School of Rock", to his coming-of-age tales "Boyhood" and "Dazed and Confused" all the way to some of the best romance movies ever
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Daemons of the Shadow Realm reveals the depths a certain hunter named Ivan has in Ep. 20 "The Hunted and the Hunter". It's very bloody and dark depths, but it does show that Ivan will likely be a major recurring villain in the story, and will play a major role in that story somehow. As well as
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually