Interview: William Eubank, director of ‘Love’
Advertisements Taking on a low-budget existential sci-fi epic might seem like a big task for a young, up-and-coming director, but that is exactly what...
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 Taking on a low-budget existential sci-fi epic might seem like a big task for a young, up-and-coming director, but that is exactly what...
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ Unashamedly taking its cues from past existentialist sci-fi classics such as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Duncan Jones’ Moon,...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Bond is most certainly back. Sam Mendes’ long-awaited 23rd entry in the franchise, Skyfall (2012), starring Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem, is...
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Savages (2012) is “like a fucked up Robin Hood” according to Taylor Kitsch’s character, Chon, in Oliver Stone’s thriller. With that very...
Advertisements ★★☆☆☆ When Graham Chapman joined the choir invisible in 1989, it put an end to rumours of a full Monty Python reunion once...
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Featuring almost six hours of fictional, documentary and political short films, Steel – A Century of Steelmaking on Film is the third...