by Sean Axmaker | Jul 8, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
There is indeed a spy in London Spy (BBC, DVD) but this BBC mini-series is not a traditional espionage drama. Danny (Ben Whishaw) is a club-culture young gay man with a dreary day job who meets the closeted, emotionally suppressed Alex (Edward Holcroft), a genius with...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 12, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Locke (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD, VOD), on its surface, sounds like one of the those high-concept / stunt thrillers and horror films that sprouted up like weeds a few years ago: one actor in a car, driving alone in a stretch of freeway at night, talking to the people in...
by Danny Miller | Apr 24, 2014 | Interviews
Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) has worked diligently to craft the life he has always envisioned, dedicating himself to the job that he loves and the family he adores. On the eve of the biggest challenge of this career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series...
by James Rocchi | Jan 17, 2014 | Festivals, Reviews, What's Hot
Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. — Dante, Inferno, Canto One At the start of Locke, we see Tom Hardy’s title character Ivan Locke come off a huge construction site;...
