‘Affliction’ tells the story of a mentally unstable local police officer, Wade Whitehouse played by Nick Nolte, who while in the midst of a divorce. Reexamining this lost work, we can study the effects of trauma, and how it is never easily overcome.
Read More‘The Counselor’, which was so written by Cormac McCarthy as a screenplay, explores a terrain through the arrogance of a person who thinks that they can fix all the damage that led them down a dark path. But much like other McCarthy works, there was no undoing the mistakes that sowed the seeds of their own demise.
Read MoreSince its release, ‘No Country For Old Men’ has stood the test of time as one of the greatest films of all time. Even to this present day, it is cited as a master class of writing and impeccable characterization. It succeeds not only as a great thriller, but as an existential exploration into violence, the unrelenting uncertainty of it, and how we can learn to live with what we can’t exactly prepare for.
Read MoreIt’s been 12 years now since Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man dropped into theaters and downright disrupted the then-regulated flow of superhero movies. With the film returning to theaters this past week as the next one-up in a series of Spider-Movie re-releases, it seemed like a good opportunity to revisit the film.
Read MoreWhether you are a fan of Action in Ballerina, Drama in Flightrisk, Horror in A Quiet Place: Day One or Comedy in the reboot for The Naked Gun, 2024 and beyond is sure to give us plenty of more movies to look forward in watching at our nearest cinemas. Let’s take a look at what companies such as Warner Bros, Universal, Lionsgate, Focus Features, Paramount and Disney all provided for fans during CinemaCon 2024…
Read MoreLooking back, it’s easy to see why ‘Godzilla v Kong’ paid off, but it’ll always be special to revisit that era for the MonsterVerse and movies as a whole. Director Adam Wingard permanently altered the landscape for monster movies and continues to set a new blockbuster standard with every subsequent release, and it all goes back to Godzilla vs. Kong.
Read MoreThe Final Day of the 2024 SXSW Film Festival is here and what a journey it has been. On the final update to this festival diary we look at Turtles, Roleplay, The Idea Of You and my Top 5 films from this years festival. Continue for the final entry in our recap of the 2024 SXSW Film Festival.
Read MoreDay 7 of SXSW 2024 - consolidation of films and large crowds led me to one of my favorite films of the festival and what might be one of the worst I’ve ever seen. Continue for our Day 7 Recap of the 2024 SXSW Film Festival.
Read MoreDay 6 of SXSW 2024 - I’m barely holding on but managed to get a great documentary, the latest Alex Garland morality piece, and excessively bloody rocketship to hell. Continue for DAY 6 of our 2024 SXSW Film Festival Recap.
Read MoreDay 4 of SXSW began with a good ol’ fashioned tear-jerker and ended with a good ol’ fashioned religious horror with some stunts and blunts in between. Continue for our Day 4 recap of the 2024 SXSW FIlm Festival
Read MoreThe winners were announced last night - some have shocked the world, some have upset the world and some were very much expected. Let’s take a look at the lucky and deserving Oscar winners from the past year of film.
Read MoreDay 2 at SXSW started with a buttery blessing in disguise followed by a tear-jerker, a mom comedy, and a teen comedy. Continue for our recap of Day 2 at the SXSW Film Festival.
Read MoreA brief recap of the highlights and films watched on Day 1 of the 2024 SXSW Film Festival including the movies Timestalker and Road House. Continue for our first Festival Diary of 2024.
Read MoreFilmSpeak returns to Austin for the enduringly weird and wild congregation of the arts that is the 2024 SXSW Film Festival. This year brings bone-breaking action, unconventional horrors, war-torn cul-de-sacs and comedic millenial mayhem. Continue for a preview of this year’s headliners to be covered at SXSW 2024.
Read MoreThe franchise kept feeling a little more off as it went on. A dual ode to the pinnacle of the action hero archetype, ‘Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ and ‘Dial of Destiny’ form two films that exist solely to say goodbye to Indiana Jones, despite, in each case, the film preceding it having already done so. We beg the question, where were these films going?
Read MoreWith the fifth film in the franchise, ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ releasing this week, now is the perfect time to take a trip into the Further and revisit this absolute gem of the horror genre. A cult classic that never really solidified, but absolutely deserved to.
Read MoreThere truly is not a better time to be a horror fan than right now, even with a film that is not for anyone like ‘Skinamarink’. It’s use of abstract imagery to audiences; there is still room for the genre to take bold new steps into uncharted territory.
Read MoreIt’s that time of the year again, and once again FilmSpeak will have a team at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival. With SXSW 2023 right around the corner we look forward at the most anticipated and most notable films premiering at this year’s festival.
Read MoreIn this new golden age of television, there are thousands of options streaming across dozens of platforms. Here is FilmSpeak’s preview of some of the highlights of the upcoming year.
Read MoreThe horizon looks promising for 2023 in terms of the world of film. From big-screen blockbusters to nostalgic family adventures, there’ll be plenty for all audiences this coming year. Here’s our list of the must-see movies coming up this year.
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