Film Review: ‘The British Guide to Showing Off’
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Jes Benstock’s The British Guide to Showing Off (2011) opens with an animated sequence of a sparkling egg cracking open, with a...
★★★★☆ In Alex Garland’s Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media’s dehumanizing relationship with violence.
★★★★☆ Having won the Jury Prize in 2013 for Like Father, Like Son and the Palme d’Or in 2018 with Shoplifters, Cannes favourite and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Monster, a masterful work of intricate storytelling, complemented by a lovely score by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
★★★★★ Theodor Adorno famously wrote that poetry was not possible after Auschwitz, but is cinema? Billy Wilder certainly thought so, getting footage from the camps as evidence as much as anything else. Steven Spielberg, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Resnais and Roberto Benigni have all with differing degrees of success tried their hands.
★★★★★ Greek weird wave director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite) hits his stride with his strangest yet most deeply satisfying comedy fable yet, Poor Things. This exhilarating mix of Fanny Hill and Frankenstein is adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s novel of the same name.
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Jes Benstock’s The British Guide to Showing Off (2011) opens with an animated sequence of a sparkling egg cracking open, with a...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Wuthering Heights (2011), Andrea Arnold’s re-telling of Emily Brontë’s classic, is clever and full of passion and intensity; very little of which,...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ As the gang responsible for Chicken Run (2000), Flushed Away (2006) and – of course – the Wallace and Gromit series, Aardman...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Labelled the French Gone with the Wind (1939) when it was first released amid the victory celebrations of post World War II...