Posts tagged Skyfall
MOVIE REVIEW: Trespass Against Us
MOVIE REVIEW: Trespass Against Us

When it comes to crime families in movies, any contenders and pretenders that want to be taken seriously are kissing the Corleone ring of “The Godfather” trilogy.  That’s not happening with the Cutler clan in Adam Smith’s “Trespass Against Us.”  As a mishmash of trailer park trash puffing their chests to operate with supposed principles, they occupy the polar opposite end of the glamorous spectrum of organized crime.  Call them an “Irish fugazi,” if you will, complete with their own membership rings and cracks in the hierarchy.

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2017, 3 STARS, ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW, Chicago Film Festival, Foreign Film, MOVIE REVIEW, Video on DemandDon ShanahanAMC South Barrington 302016, 2017, 52nd Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, Trespass Against Us, Adam Smith, Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Sean Harris, Georgie Smith, Lyndsay Marshal, Macbeth, Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, Rory Kinnear, fugazi, Crime films, crime families, The Godfather, Skyfall, Gareth Milne, Eduard Grau, The Chemical Brothers, life lessons from film, life lessons from movies, life lessons, Life lessons, movie review, film review, movie commentary, film commentary, foreign film, independent films, Donald Shanahan, Don ShanahanComment
ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW: Spectre
ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW: Spectre

With the arrival of "Spectre" for Daniel Craig's fourth outing as 007 and the returning follow-up of Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes, questions arise to the notion of raised and renewed expectations.  How do you top "Skyfall?"  How do you improve or follow a game changer like that?  The first answer is you can't.  The best this film can do is continue the momentum and build to the next game changer.  "Spectre" stands as exactly that precise first step down from a summit on its way to find the next mountain and next great challenge.

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2015, 4 STARS, ADVANCE MOVIE REVIEW, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanSpectre, SPECTRE, James Bond, James Bond theme, SkyfallComment
EDITORIAL: My 15 most anticipated films of 2015
EDITORIAL: My 15 most anticipated films of 2015

During the shift from December to January, I enjoy retracing what I reviewed and enjoyed from the previous year, but the trailers and previews for next year's films are starting to make an impact.  I can't help but look ahead.  Every year, I wrote an "Most Anticipated List."   2015 looks wildly loaded with must-see films.  Let's make a new list for a new year.  Here are my 15 most anticipated films of this new year.  Enjoy!

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2015, Column, Editorial, SPECIALDon ShanahanJupiter Ascending, The Peanuts Movie, In the Heart of the Sea, The Revenant, The Hateful Eight, Tomorrowland, The Jungle Book, Jon Favreau, Brad Bird, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ron Howard, Quentin Tarantino, The Fantastic Four, Ant-Man, Marvel Films, Furious 7, Paul Walker, Pixar, Inside Out, Mission: Impossible 5, Jurassic World, Spectre, Skyfall, James Bond, The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. AbramsComment