Cleaning Out My Film Rentals. #4 Motherless Brooklyn. Paragraph Review.

Edward Norton directs and stars as a private eye with terzets investigating his bosses murder in 1950s New York in this adaptation of the Jonathan Lethem novel.  The film has a strong supporting cast (Gugu Mbatha-Raw  ,Bruce Willis, Bobby Cannavale, Alec Baldwin and Willem Dafoe among others) but despite Norton delivering a really strong centralContinue reading “Cleaning Out My Film Rentals. #4 Motherless Brooklyn. Paragraph Review.”

Lockdown Streaming Reviews. #1 Spencer Confidential. (Netflix.)

Do you want to know what a modern CBS procedural would look like if it was R rated and had insane tonal whiplash? Well Peter Berg (who has made some solid films in the past) has gone into full Battleship and Mile 22 mode to show you just that with this remake of an ABCContinue reading “Lockdown Streaming Reviews. #1 Spencer Confidential. (Netflix.)”