Full disclosure, I had a ton of apprehensions before going into Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour. For one, this Oscars season, it seemed to be the film that most obviously fit the tired “Oscar bait” formula (come on, it’s a prestige drama-biopic with a respected character actor fully inhabiting one of
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Oscar Contender “Darkest Hour” Opens Exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas on Feb 14
Nominated for six major Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor, Focus Features’ historical drama Darkest Hour will be shown exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas (Trinoma, Greenbelt 1) starting February 14. Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), Darkest Hour is the dramatic and inspiring story of four weeks in 1940 during which
Baby Driver
Baby Driver opens with car chase perfectly synced to “Bellbottoms” by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. We see the titular Baby (Ansel Elgort) align every move to the music — timing a heist to the song’s bluesy riff, flooring the pedal as the same song explodes into a cacophony of frantic garage
Edgar Wright Goes Musical-Heist in First “Baby Driver” Trailer
In an alternate universe, Edgar Wright would have directed Marvel’s Ant-Man and we would have written about his new film Baby Driver referring to it as his follow-up. In that alternate universe, we would have made comparisons on the heist thrills both films exude, possibly even asking ourselves if a new “trilogy” of
