Sam Mendes

At a slowly decaying English seaside cinema in the early-1980s, a young black usher and older white manager fall in love… —

This latest offering from Sam Mendes is being billed as a romance. (And marketed as some kind of Merchant and Ivory offering). Er not really. …

Empire Of Light serves as quite the switch up after the intense, tension filled, immersive story that was 1917. We’ve seen movies about movies, filmmaking and so forth but not many take place largely in a local theater. Empire of light tells the story of one Hillary Small (Olivia Colman)…

Movies about finding connections in unlikely places inspire me, and it is even more inspiring when the film is set at a movie theater. In Empire of Light, directed by Sam Mendes, the main setting is a movie theater in the United Kingdom. This setting took me back to my…

Believe it or not it has been ten years since Skyfall — Daniel Craig’s best James Bond film and one of two directed by British Oscar-winner Sam Mendes (the less said about Spectre the better). As part of the anniversary, the Hollywood Reporter has had a chat with Mendes about…

★★★★☆ — In the midst of World War I, two British soldiers embark on a dangerous mission into enemy territory. Their orders: halt a battalion of over 1,600 men about to charge into a deadly trap. A powerful and emotionally engaging modern war movie, just not quite the masterpiece it wants to…

“Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.” John Rooney (Paul Newman) says to Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks), referring to his son witnessing a brutal murder at the hands of John Rooney’s son Conner (Daniel Craig). For the most part, the characters are defined by father/son relationships. Michael…