Stephen Graham
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
The opening of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is superb—informative, unsettling, and instantly immersive. It drops the viewer into 1940s England as Nazi bombs fall and counterfeit currency floods the economy, establishing a tense backdrop that shapes everything that follows. Once a small-time Birmingham gang, the Peaky Blinders are now led by Duke (Barry Keoghan), the estranged…
Greyhound
GREYHOUND Greyhound is a tactical war drama known as a dad’s movie. Why? To fully appreciate the impact of the Greyhound engaging U-Boats in the North Atlantic, you must be either elderly (there are less than 300,000 WWII veterans alive out of the sixteen million who served in the US), or have known someone who…
The Irishman
THE IRISHMAN The Irishman is a very long film about crime, assassinations, and the Mafia. It stars the only Irish guy in the Mafia as the hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro). On his deathbed, the real Frank Sheeran told a reporter “stories” about his work for the Mafia in Philadelphia during the 1950s. Those…