Tag Archives: Joe Wright

roots of leadership (Film: Darkest Hour – Gary Oldman, 2017)

This season of the Academy Awards has two strong contenders in movies that deal with the events that took place in May and early June 1940. While Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk used the power of the computer effects to retrace the … Continue reading

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Anna Karenina as never seen before (Film: Anna Karenina – Joe Wright, 2012)

What else can be said about Anna Karenina, one of the books that were read, brought to stage and screen so many times? We think that we know the action and the characters, and it takes quite an amount of … Continue reading

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This is Called Grace (Film: The Soloist – Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., 2009)

One trick I truly dislike when a movie is promoted is when the label ‘inspired by a true story’ is placed into a too visible place, especially when it comes to true stories and to characters which I could in … Continue reading

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