Ridley Scott

Review: The Counselor (2013)

Review: The Counselor (2013)

In a 2009 Wall Street Journal interview, the famously reticent Cormac McCarthy offered an aghast opinion of the collaborative process of filmmaking, saying of his time on movie sets, “This is just hell. Who would do this?...it would compel you to avoid it at all costs.” With prev... Read More »

Review: The Counselor (2013)

Review: The Counselor (2013)

If you tell me Ridley Scott is directing a crime drama starring Michael Fassbender, that may be all I need to be sold. If you continue, telling me the film is about the drug trade at the Texas border and stars Javier Bardem as a wild and colorful drug kingpin, I may begin to sal... Read More »

Review: The Counselor (2013)

Review: The Counselor (2013)

“This is a cautionary stone. You will see,” the Counselor is told by a diamond dealer near the beginning of Ridley Scott’s flimsy neo-noir The Counselor. That line is symbolic, you see, for Scott’s cautionary tale that can’t grasp really any of novelist-turned-screenwriter Cormac... Read More »

TIFF’s Endless Summer – The Birth of the Blockbuster Review: Alien (1979) – NP Approved

TIFF’s Endless Summer – The Birth of the Blockbuster Review: Alien (1979) - NP Approved

Meet the crew of the transport ship Nostromo: Warrant Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver); Captain Dallas (Tom Skerritt); Executive Officer Kane (John Hurt); Navigator Lambert (Veronica Cartwright); engineers Brett and Parker (Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto); and Science Offic... Read More »

Trailer – The Counselor – International Trailer

Trailer - The Counselor - International Trailer

A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking. Stars Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Directed by Ridley Scott. Read More »

Trailer: The Counselor – Theatrical Trailer

Trailer: The Counselor - Theatrical Trailer

A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking. Stars Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Directed by Ridley Scott. Read More »

Trailer: The Counselor – Teaser

Trailer: The Counselor - Teaser

A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking. Stars Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. Directed by Ridley Scott. Read More »

Review: Prometheus (2012)

Review: Prometheus (2012)

Cast: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender Director: Ridley Scott Country: USA Genre: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi Official Trailer: Here Modern special-effect spectacles suffer from a weightless camera, an excessive fluidity that makes the audience fly without ever... Read More »

Review: Prometheus (2012)

Review: Prometheus (2012)

The camera sweeps across a barren plane, flying over craggy rocks and through low-hanging cloud. All seems empty, quiet, dead. And then a lake, the shades of green, and life. Back in the 1970s when man had walked on the moon and vast new worlds were open to our eyes, Ridley Scott... Read More »

Trailer: Prometheus

Trailer: Prometheus

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. Stars Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, and ... Read More »