Savage allows this to build. The titular “escape” happens late on, allowing the film room to ruminate in her disdain. “They [the children] hate me,” she declares to a dumfounded Mark before revealing how little she often cares about them. It’s an acerbic, deeply sad moment but it...
You get the feeling with Arterton that she has long craved the opportunity to sink her teeth into more thematically meaty material, and British writer/director Dominic Savage duly obliges with The Escape –not a low-rent action flick as its rather naff title suggests, but a beautifully composed...
The Great Escape: Directed by John Sturges. With Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald. Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II making a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of their men, hoping
"The Last Escape" (Stuart Whitman) "Submarine X-1" (James Caan) These films, which always boasted sensational poster artwork, were made without the expectation of winning awards or becoming blockbusters. The producers were happy to make a modest profit, a philosophy today's ...
people who often make left-field decisions to improve or escape their existential plight. With his latest filmEmilia Perez(2024)the filmmaking master challenges the audience again with a multi-blended genre film that also contains powerful themes of transformation, redemption, violence, crime and fami...
The Great Escape review Daniel Corleone - wrote on 01/27/2012 A film about how real Allied prisoners of war (POWs) try to escape a German POW camp during World War II. The prisoners work on 3 tunnels nicknamed "Tom," "Dick" and "Harry." One of the main characters, though each one...
Terror thrives off spatial awareness—think about the house in “Hereditary,” the winding hallways in “The Shining,” the cramped compartments of “Alien.” Emerson Moore’s “Escape the Field” makes a bold move and promptly falls on its face by cutting out that element, and sets its ...
The Great Escape (1963) 6/10 A great aventure, but a bad war movie 9 February 2021 I have mixed feelings on this movie. It is a movie that appeals to me, it has a lot of things that I should like. Yet, I was utterly bored during the first half of this film, and by the ...
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Yang, the prominent figure from the pantheon of New Taiwanese Cinema, and 34 years later, RED DUST still endures as a high point of Hong Kong New Wave director Yim Ho’s track record.At that stage of his career, Yang’s scripts begin to eschew linearity and at first blush, the intercon...