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Last year's Roman J. Israel, Esq. , starring legendary screen actor Denzel Washington , was one of 2017's significant cinematic disappointments. Considering director  Dan Gilroy 's impressive directorial debut Nightcrawler  (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed ), Roman was more than just textbook "sophomore slump" material, it was a perplexing exercise that kept viewers asking themselves, "What am I watching?" and "What were the filmmakers thinking?" Roman told the story (I guess) of an idealistic lawyer (Washington) who gets in over his head once he takes over a hostile criminal case from his late mentor and boss...but already I'm making the film sound much more interesting and exciting than it really is. Colin Farrell co-stars as a hot shot attorney and marginal friend to our protagonist but he's underused in the role. As I reflected on the dud that this movie is, not the mention how it unbelievably scored Washington a Best...

Yorgos Lanthimos must associate diners with closure and inner peace. The diner has been the setting for the final scenes in his two most recent outings a director, The Lobster and his newest film The Killing of Sacred Deer . Lobster told a bleak (and often painfully funny) postmodern fable about finding love, yet you could really feel that Lanthimos cared for his two protagonists (even though they both endured some life-changing sacrifices). On the other hand, I can't say that Lanthimos cares for anyone in Sacred Deer . But maybe that's the point. Sacred Deer stars Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman , as a textbook-happily-married-couple with two children (a young son and a teenage daughter) and a gorgeous mansion of a suburban home. Farrell's Steven Murphy is a doctor who spends a lot of his time at work, alongside his colleague Matthew (played by Bill Camp , who was superb in HBO's The Night Of ) but even MORE time acting as a surrogate paternal figure for the o...

Yorgos Lanthimos ' new film The Killing of a Sacred Deer tells a pretty serious and morbid tale. (The film review will follow on this site.) The original trailer featured an eerie cover of Ellie Goulding 's song "Burn" so I thought I'd lighten the mood a bit and remix it with the original -- and upbeat! -- number. Here goes the original trailer for comparison Happy Wednesday everyone. UPDATE : Ellie Goulding herself tweeted about this! Saw that last week- crazy... https://t.co/C3Lhqf51Lv — Ellie Goulding (@elliegoulding) October 25, 2017