Tag Archives: Jonah Hill

The lives of international arms dealers must be formulaic. By the end of the nominally ‘based on true events’ War Dogs, I was struck by just how neatly the protagonists’ lives had dovetailed into a screenplay template. The fact that ...

The film reboot of 21 Jump Street was a pleasant surprise. I assumed it would be awful, trying too hard to cling to old ideas that did well back in the day without really adding anything of its own to ...

*Spoiler free review* It is always difficult when a film is surrounded by a whole lotta hype. Do you buy into the hype and build up your excitement until you almost burst? Or do you keep a cool, cynical distance, ...

Martin Scorsese is no stranger to controversy. He seems to live for shocking and pissing off the masses – and if he gets vitriolic responses from the Academy, all the better. The Wolf of Wall Street may be lacking his ...