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Posts Tagged "Ben Mendelsohn"

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Mississippi Grind *** (2015, Ben Mendelsohn, Ryan Reynolds, Sienna Miller, Yvonne Landry, Alfre Woodard) – Movie Review

Ben Mendelsohn stars as 44-year old down-on-his-luck gambling addict Gerry desperately looking for the big win that will get him out of his financial and life mess. He’s a man who would stake his own […]

Oct, 23

Slow West **** (2015, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius) – Movie Review

Kodi Smit-McPhee stars in writer and director John Maclean’s 2015 Western film Slow West as a 16-year-old Scots boy called Jay who journeys across 19th-century frontier America in search of the girl he loves. Michael […]

Apr, 24

Exodus: Gods and Kings *** (2014, Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, John Turturro, Ben Mendelsohn) – Movie Review

The Gospel according to director Ridley Scott is a typically beautifully crafted, visually stunning affair that he tries desperately hard to turn into Gladiator 2, with Moses as an action hero, and inevitably mostly fails. It’s not […]

Dec, 18

Black Sea *** (2014, Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Tobias Menzies, Ben Mendelsohn) – Movie Review

Jude Law manfully battles odd casting, and an odder ‘Scottish’ accent, as grizzled, veteran submarine skipper Captain Robinson, who is a disgruntled, sacked employee of an ocean salvage company. Salvation seems to come when he is […]

Dec, 04

Starred Up ****½ ( 2013, Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend) – Movie Review

Starred Up is an awesome, often terrifying film finding new ground in the old prison movie territory. Jack O’Connell is incredible as the deeply troubled 19-year-old Eric, who is prematurely transferred from a young offenders’ […]

Dec, 05

The Place Beyond the Pines **** (2012, Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper, Ben Mendelsohn, Emory Cohen, Dane deHaan, Ray Liotta, Harris Yulin) – Movie Review

A complex, ambitious, intimate epic crime drama, told at great length and in three parts, this steadily puts on momentum and power, and gains stature as it goes along. Weird that potentially the most exciting […]

Jun, 17

The Place Beyond The Pines – Film Review

A complex, ambitious, intimate epic crime drama, told at great length and in three parts, this steadily puts on momentum and power, and gains stature as it goes along. Weird that potentially the most exciting […]

Apr, 16

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