Film Review: ‘We Are What We Are’
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are (2013) – his follow-up to blood-soaked vampire drama Stake Land (2010) – is so convincing...
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24 April 2024
Film Review: Abigail
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.
17 April 2024
Film Review: Civil War
★★★★☆ 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.
17 March 2024
Film Review: Monster
★★★★☆ 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.
17 March 2024
Film Review: The Zone of Interest
★★★★★ 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.
Monthly Archive: February 2014
Film Review: ‘Non-Stop’
Advertisements ★★★☆☆ Action movies are typically a young man’s genre but an older man’s game. The real tough cookies have been thickened by years...
Film Review: ‘Funny Face’
Advertisements ★★★★★ Stanley Donen’s Funny Face (1957), like the industry it so wittily satirises, is beguiling, effortlessly stylish and always in vogue. This evergreen classic...
Film Review: ‘As the Palaces Burn’
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Metal’s reputation has tolerated the most unfounded social clichés. Hackneyed variations of ink-coated sweat-riddled aggressors lacking in any emotion other than sightless...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Roma’
Advertisements ★★★★☆ A landmark work in the lexicon of 1970s art film, Federico Fellini’s highly venerated opus Roma (1972) arrives in a pristine restoration...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Phantom of the Paradise’
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Coming two years before his breakout commercial horror hit Carrie, Phantom of the Paradise (1974) finds revered seventies “movie brat” Brian De...
Blu-ray Review: ‘The Killers’
Advertisements ★★★★☆ Don Siegel was one of the key directors in the undervalued period of American cinema that took place just before the New...
Blu-ray Review: ‘Classe Tous Risques’
Advertisements ★★★★☆ History tells us that the neophyte directors who emerged in sixties France made films that challenged the established aesthetic tradition. It forgets...