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This month sees the celebration of a decade of movie musings from Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode on their highly respected yet enduringly accessible...
Directors Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett’s “Abigail” mashes up crime caper and monster movie, but fails to deliver fear or humor. Spoilery trailers and unoriginal characters overshadow promising elements, resulting in a dull, lifeless experience lacking creativity and wit.
★★★★☆ 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.
This month sees the celebration of a decade of movie musings from Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode on their highly respected yet enduringly accessible...
★★★★★ It’s difficult to find something new to say about Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 masterpiece Apocalypse Now. Just about everything that can be said...
★★★★★ To the uniniated, it’s hard to sum up the audaciously ambitious universe of Hideaki Anno’s Evangelion saga without a little history, and so…...
★☆☆☆☆ Given that the finale of 2009’s humorous and hugely popular comedy The Hangover pretty much wrapped up things by filling in all the...
‘Behind the Mask’ is a weekly series of introduced screenings from BAFTA and the ICA, wherein creative professionals each choose a film that they...
It is the second day of the 13th Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy and Spencer Murphy sat down with director Li Weiran...
A middle-aged architect phones a sex-line and replies to a personal ad by Sarah, an intriguing young woman who shares his affinity for art…a...
If you’ve never heard of Husqvarna, the chances are you either don’t work in the building trade or, perhaps, you’re not yet a father....