Posts tagged Everest
MOVIE REVIEW: Sicario
MOVIE REVIEW: Sicario

"Sicario" is a raw labyrinth of grit and surprises.  This film is a python of suspense.  Just when you think the film can't squeeze you any tighter, it chokes you even more.  It resets the bar as the best and finest film on drug warfare that Hollywood has ever attempted.  "Sicario" is steely, seedy, scary, and jarring in its underlying social and political commentary to bore that out.  It's the kind of film that will make you never want to visit Mexico or live in Arizona or Texas.  

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2015, MOVIE REVIEW, 5 STARSDon ShanahanSicario, Denis Villeneuve, Prisoners, Enemy, Emily Blunt, Benecio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal, Palme d'Or, Cannes Film Festival, Roger Deakins, Toronto International Film Festival, film review, movie review, film commentary, movie commentary, drug trafficking, Edge of Tomorrow, Looper, Everest, life lessons, life lessons from films, life lessons from movies, life lessons from film, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, 2015 Fall Movies, 2015Comment
MOVIE REVIEW: Everest
MOVIE REVIEW: Everest

Marketed like a thrilling disaster film yet playing like a respectful drama, "Everest" is still carries the sheen of every other Hollywood mountain climbing movie while offering enough of a eulogistic history lesson to be respectful of its true story.  Based on the real 1996 events documented in Jon Krakauer's massively best-selling novel "Into Thin Air," astute viewers who know how it will all end will still be engaged and entertained through the cliches.  Director Baltasar Kormakur veils the seams of Hollywood dramatization enough to not sour the experience.

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3 STARS, 2015, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanNavy Pier IMAXEverest, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Sam Worthington, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, Martin Henderson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dario Marianelli, William Nicholson, Simon Beaufoy, Baltasar Kormakur, Salvatore Totino, Venice Film Festival, 2015 Fall Movies, 2015Comment
COLUMN: 2015 Fall Movie Preview
COLUMN: 2015 Fall Movie Preview

After the traditional summer movie season of blockbusters, the following fall movie season tends to be a lull and a letdown before the next round of event films and the awards contenders fill up the months of November and December.  September is normally filled with rejects that weren't big enough for summer and not good enough for the holidays.  With Halloween capping October, the darker stuff tends to fill that month.  That's been the trend but the climate is shifting like the season.  It is with great surprise that this fall movie season, on paper, is shaping up to be truly legitimate.  

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2015, Editorial, ColumnDon ShanahanNo Escape, Janes Got a Gun, The Transporter: Refueled, Sleeping with Other People, The Visit, Black Mass, Captive, Everest, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Pawn Sacrifice, Sicario, Hotel Transylvania 2, Stonewall, The Intern, The Disappointments Room, Before I Wake, The Walk, The Martian, Pan, Steve Jobs, Masterminds, Bridge of Spies, Crimson Peak, Goosebumps, Truth, Burnt, The Last Witch Hunter, Jem and the Holograms, Rock the Kasbah, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimensoion, Scout's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, A Walk in the Woods, Triple 9, Victor Frankenstein, KidnapComment
CHECKLIST: 2015 Fall Movie Calendar
CHECKLIST: 2015 Fall Movie Calendar

Thank you for all of your patience with my long month of August travel for work.  Things are slowing down and I'll be catching up soon.  Looking ahead, the 2015 fall movie season is just around the corner.  My full and complete preview will be coming soon, but here's a calendar and checklist of the upcoming season's releases.  Print this, slap it on the fridge, or fill you calendar!

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2015, ColumnDon Shanahan2015 Fall Movies, 2015 Fall Movie Preview, No Escape, The Transporter: Refueled, A Walk in the Woods, Sleeping with Other People, The Visit, Black Mass, Captive, Everest, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Pawn Sacrifice, Sicario, Hotel Transylvania 2, Stonewall, The Intern, The Disappointments Room, Before I Wake, The Walk, The Martian, London Has Fallen, Victor Frankenstein, Pan, Steve Jobs, Kidnap, Masterminds, Bridges of Spies, Crimson Peak, Goosebumps, Truth, Burnt, The Last Witch Hunter, Jem and the Holograms, Rock the Kasbah, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimensoion, Our Brand is Crisis, Scout's Guide to the Zombie ApocalypseComment