Special Feature: Cinema’s greatest movie vehicles
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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.
Advertisements When researching this particular article, we came to realise just what hugely contested debates this subject area can turn out. Everyone seems to...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ “It’s not how hard you play, it’s where you put it”, flourishes 85-year-old Lisa Modlich with an acknowledgement towards the cameraman. Since her inaugural table...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ If somebody were to ask you to look into a mirror, you’re not always guaranteed to like what you see reflected. US...
Advertisements ★★★★★ The sci-fi cult classic Quatermass and the Pit (1967), directed by long-time Amicus and Hammer director Roy Ward Baker (who sadly died...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ After superseding a failed attempt at getting Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 4 off the ground (with both Raimi and Maguire unwilling to commit...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Anthony Baxter’s immensely compelling (and infuriating) low-budget documentary You’ve Been Trumped (2011) begins with a well-placed clip from Bill Forsyth’s acclaimed Scottish...
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ Hell (2011), the new sci-fi / horror from producer German-born Roland Emmerich and director Tim Fehlbaum, is undeniably aptly-titled. For the viewer,...