DVD Review: The Love Witch
★★★☆☆ If the ongoing franchise juggernaut of J.K. Rowling’s magical fantasy is anything to go by, the world just can’t get enough of wizards....
★★★☆☆ Sometimes, it’s tough being really skilled at one thing in particular. Having flown out the blocks with two supremely good, bonafide hit horror films (Hereditary, Midsommar), writer and director Ari Aster had to make a departure to avoid being pigeon-holed as a genre specialist.
★★★★☆ A sense of powerlessness is often described as a root cause of climate-anxiety, and it seems inevitable that such negative energy would have an equal and opposite: dreams of drastic action. How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a ‘what if’ film about targeting carbon infrastructure, dressed with the contours of a heist movie and delivered with the imaginative punch of gelignite.
★★★★★ Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer are a little-known writing and directing partnership based in Brooklyn, New York. But their standing is due a considerable elevation on the strength of God’s Creatures, a film that wields its simple premise with devastating impact.
★★★☆☆ If the ongoing franchise juggernaut of J.K. Rowling’s magical fantasy is anything to go by, the world just can’t get enough of wizards....
★★★☆☆ If you’ve ever been stuck in an airport lounge, motorway service station or transit hub hotel, you might feel a sceptical appreciation for...
★★☆☆☆ Ah, the lighthouse: visual metaphor of masculine vanity, anti-shipwreck device, and home to a solitary lighthouse keeper, desperate for company to keep him...
★★★★☆ Those who jones for Thrones are in luck – sort of. If Medieval intrigue is your thing, and you don’t mind a substitution...
★★★☆☆ A long time ago, in a pre-Christian moral universe far far away, there were two brothers. One a Jewish prince, the other a...
★★★☆☆ It may not come as too much of a surprise to learn that David Brent can’t quite carry an entire feature film all...
★★★★☆ If you’re in the business of selling dog food, you’ll know that dog owners are in the habit of projecting their own personality...
★☆☆☆☆ If you go out into the furthest reaches of Star Trek’s filmography you’ll be in for an unsettling discovery – the final frontier...