Film Review: Queen & Slim
★★★★☆ Music video director Melina Matsoukas brings her considerable talents to the big screen with Queen & Slim, a crime drama fitted out like Bonnie […]
Film Review: Richard Jewell
★★★☆☆ Industry commentators were somewhat taken aback by Kathy Bates’ Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in Clint Eastwood’s latest “fact-based” drama, Richard Jewell. […]
Film Review: The Lighthouse
★★★★☆ Back in 2015, Robert Eggers delighted critics with the flesh-pecking horror of The Witch, a directorial feature debut which blended the theatrics of Arthur […]
De Niro, DiCaprio board Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese’s Netflix epic The Irishman received a total of ten Academy Award nominations including Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Al Pacino and Joe […]
Hobby inspiration from the movies
The cinematic experience has created a cultural phenomenon of film addicts wanting to live lives that are more like their movie starring counterparts – the […]
Film Review: The Personal History of David Copperfield
★★★☆☆ Acclaimed satirist Armando Iannucci follows up the pitch-black delights of 2017’s The Death of Stalin with The Personal History of David Copperfield, a relatively […]
Film Review: Present. Perfect.
★★★★☆ Shengze Zhu’s Present. Perfect. looks at the culture of live-streaming in China. Composed entirely of found footage and presented in black and white to […]
Film Review: A Hidden Life
★★★★★ Authentic being, leaps of faith and mortality haunt every frame of Terrence Malick’s latest opus, A Hidden Life (aka Radegund). Basing his new film […]
Oscars 2020: Joker has 11 nominations, 10 each for 1917, OUATIH and The Irishman
The nominations for this year’s 92nd Academy Awards were announced this morning. As was the case with the Baftas a week prior, Todd Phillips’ Joker […]
Pain & Gain: Hollywood’s ‘biggest’ stars
Since the inception of action cinema, there have been actors who focused on getting ripped before they could play various roles in action movies. Undeniably, […]
The evolution of the post-credits scene
Post-credits scenes have become so incredibly popular today – particularly in big action series – that many moviegoers will stay seated in the theatre until […]
Film Review: Seberg
★★☆☆☆ Actors playing other actors always feels like a dangerous act of appropriation. Geoffrey Rush in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, James Franco […]
The best casino movies streaming now
The explosion of broadband and more recently, 5G, have literally changed our lives. In fact, whether it may be shopping online at Amazon to playing […]
Baftas 2020: Joker leads the pack with 11 nominations
The nominations for this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards were announced this morning. Todd Phillips’ Joker led the way with a huge eleven nominations, […]
Golden Globes 2020: 1917, Parasite and Awkwafina victorious
Despite receiving a total of 34 nominations across film and television, Netflix limped away from this year’s Golden Globes ceremony with just two awards – […]
Film Review: Amanda
★★★★☆ Mikhaël Hers’ sensitive, heartfelt third feature Amanda is about loss and bereavement in the aftermath of a brutal terrorist attack in a Paris park. David […]
Film Review: Jojo Rabbit
★★★★☆ “Fuck off, Hitler!” The spirit of Taika Waititi’s satirical comedy is certainly clear in its demands for the monster supreme of national socialism to […]
Artificial Intelligence at the movies
Twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction has had a fascination with AI, and that fascination, of course, extends to movies. There are all sorts of AI programs […]