Hossein Amini

The Two Faces of January is the directorial debut of British-Iranian screenwriter Hossein Amini (screenwriter of Jude (1996), The Wings of the Dove (1997) and Drive (2011)) and the latest Patricia Highsmith adaptation after Strangers on a…

A new adaptation of an old tale, 47 Ronin is a flawed film, yet not without some enjoyable moments. Carl Rinsch makes his feature directorial debut, after a number of shorts that seem to have shown some great potential (according to the…

Killshot starts off with a crime going a bit wrong. Armand 'Blackbird' Degas (Mickey Rourke) is involved with this crime and it haunts him. He lost his little brother. The film then moves on to another crime, a shooting, that ALSO goes…

Drive came out months ago, so the world needs another review as badly as Meryl Streep needs another Oscar. And there’s not a lot to say about it: it’s been consecrated as one of the finest movies of 2011 in many Top Ten lists, and I’ll just…