’13th’

  I want to stay away from the obvious cliches when I judge this film on its own and within the long view of Ava Duvernay’s career (‘this is an important film’), so I’ll try to find the right words at the end… The conceit of this documentary is that while the 13th Amendment abolished […]

‘Hell or High Water’

‘Hell or High Water’…not on my radar to be honest, but had time for it over the holiday weekend, and it’s a nice, small film.  The Cops vs. Robbers elements will draw natural comparisons to ‘Heat’ and especially ‘No Country for Old Men’; in both cases that would be unfair to this movie.  Different scope, […]