Spoiler Scale (How spoilery is this article on a scale of 1 to 10?): 3 The Counselor certainly has an intriguing pitch: Old-guard master Ridley Scott directs one of the hottest new actors, Michael Fassbender, with the first original screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, whose successful film adaptations include No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Road (2009). As it turns out, The Counselor has proven to be the kind of film ... Read More »
Spoiler Scale (How spoilery is this article on a scale of 1 to 10?): 4 On a weekly basis back in the 1980s, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel invited a teenager from a small town in Florida and millions of others who did not live in New York or Los Angeles into their frank and articulate conversations about all sorts of movies. Siskel and Ebert reminded us that ... Read More »
Spoiler Scale (How spoilery is this article on a scale of 1 to 10?): 3 Having seen about a dozen 007 films, mostly in my childhood, I am not what you would call a big fan the franchise. So I was initially skeptical when I heard about the “reboot” back in 2006. (At that time, director Martin Campbell’s most notable work was another forgettable entry ... Read More »
