Tag: Ethan Hawke

An endearing adventure, Explorers holds on for the first acts, but loses its way in an admittedly unfinished third.

Gattaca uses genetic tinkering to intelligently explore diversity and social bias through a successful sci-fi lens.

A better message than movie, Cut Throat City delves into the post-Katrina landscape and how inequality offered no out other than crime.

Seeing Daylight In 2007, a documentary titled Who Killed the Electric Car? told the story of how various entities combined to keep fuel-based vehicles the standard. A few years …

Townes Van Zandt & The Outlaw Country Music Scene In Austin, Texas Hollywood star Ethan Hawke steps behind the camera for Blaze, a personal passion project about a subject …

Valor in Visuals Two possibilities await Valerian in the future. In one scenario, Luc Besson’s cinematic imagination earns a cult-ish following in the undercurrent of pop culture, savored by …

A limp and indifferent remake Magnificent Seven is insanely beautiful. Most westerns are. Those virgin landscapes, empty mountains, all free of expansion and dirty progress. Here, those familiar images …

Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson co-star in this chilling movie on Satanic ritual abuse Anyone that lived through the 1980s will remember the panic and media hysteria over Satanic …

Andrew Niccol’s latest allegory is fiercely anti-drone Good Kill frequently trades images of drones flying over Middle Eastern deserts for aerial images of American neighborhoods. The sharp comparison is …

Ethan Hawke takes us through time, and not in the usual way Predestination is a story of inevitability and fate. Maybe. The story’s lengthy tail insinuates many things. See, …

Smart, intelligent, and risky cinema pays off At three hours, Boyhood disappears into its length. If it didn’t, the point would be lost. Boyhood is a marvel in its …

For car crash nuts, even the dismal editing cannot take away the power of these jarringly dangerous stunts