Writer/director Brady Corbet’s (Vox Lux) The Brutalist is a monumental, expertly crafted and fascinating exploration of architecture, the immigrant experience, the American class system, art versus commerce and the quest to construct an identity. While it appears to have drawn inspiration from a variety of films such as The Pianist, There Will Be Blood, The Fountainhead, The Agony and Ecstasy
Read moreBy 2008 the Marvel Comics adaptations weren’t looking too healthy. The Fantastic Four films had been turkeys and the overlong and confusing Spiderman 3 had skittled the high expectations raised by the sensational Spiderman 2. Iron Man, however, was like a 50,000 vault surge of electricity to the ailing Frankenstein corpse of superhero movies. The film combined powerful dynamic action
Read moreRobert Downey Jnr returns in another Iron Man film (the Third), or fourth if you count last years’ The Avengers. Downey has the Tony Stark – brilliant, fun, misunderstood inventor – shtick down pat and twitches and quips his way through Iron Man 3 (IM3) without raising a sweat. If you get confused whether Downey is Sherlock Holmes or Tony
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