In the world of filmmaking, the term “remake” usually comes up as a “double edge” sword within its undertaking and overall execution. For the good part, it allows filmmakers to revisit an old property and reinvent for a modern audiences offering up a new […]
I wasn’t even aware that Arkin took a turn at portraying the bumbling and ridiculous officer of the law, but he indeed did, and it is every bit as patently silly as any of the other famous pictures starring the late great (though famously tough to work with) Peter Sellers. Arkin, […]
Con Job (2024) Director – Ian Niles (Lie Hard) Cast – Ian Niles, Menuhin Hart, Dean Edwards, T.L. Flint, Aaron Berg, Julia Claire Schweitzer Plot – Selfish hustler Chris (Niles) employs the support of his best friend Angus (Hart) to try and swindle Chris’s long-term acquittance and August’s brother Tim (Edwards) out of […]
Bursting onto the scene in 2018 with the brilliant indie film Thunder Road, Jim Cummings returns with his brand new film that he stars, writes and directs in. The Beta Test is another dark comedy that follows Jordan, a Hollywood agent that receives a mysterious letter that invites him to a hotel to participate in […]
The media has played a major part in how men perceive women. Through commercials, television series and films, women have been objectified and hypersexualized to sell an ideal form of beauty only desired by men. Thankfully, power dynamics in the workplace have shifted over the years, but there is still a power […]
It’s basically Heart of Darkness but with a really long road instead of a river. Or Apocalypse Now, if you’re unfamiliar with the above. But it’s not an adaptation, just quite inspired by. Now if we said every movie that consisted of a long journey in war time, we could get silly and say everything […]
A coming-of-age drama set in Kent, England, Bird tells the story of a rebellious twelve-year-old girl with an eye for the innocent beauty around her. Though unfamiliar with the works of writer/director Andrea Arnold, I was surprised to find a quiet calmness in her depiction of the female preteen experience. She manages to capture an […]
Themes of ‘identity’ and ‘role-playing’ swirl intensely in this decent offering starring the Berlinale award-winning Sebastian Stan, who plays a disfigured man who begins to morph into a normal-looking person after an experimental clinical trial.
New drama/romance/biography, Queer is the latest from Luca Guadagnino, director of this summer’s popular tennis movie Challengers, which starred Zendaya. Daniel Craig is Willam Lee, an outcast American expatriate in 1950s Mexico who develops an infatuation with a younger man named Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey). Based on a 1985 William S. Burroughs novella of the […]
In the battle for the most forgettable film title of the year, Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here (not to be confused with the Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary of the same title or the very similar I’m Not Here, Todd Haynes’s Bob Dylan biopic) is one of the clear favourites for a podium spot. It’s a relatively […]
A wildly entertaining, gory action-horror-comedy where Nicolas Cage as Dracula is everything you could have imagined. Renfield may seem like the the latest vampire offering from Hollywood, but it’s much more than that. Showcasing a new take on the character of Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage) and his devoted assistant/familiar R. M. Renfield (Nicholas Hoult), this comedy-horror […]
A coming-of-age story told through the lens of a young woman growing up in Silicon Valley, The Book of Jobs intertwines her life to the legacy of Steve Jobs. Victoria Pedretti (Netflix’s You, The Haunting of Hill House) plays the film’s author/narrator, always providing a window of insight to her character’s erratic insecurities. Back in […]
From a young age Nat Turner (Nate Parker) was always told that he was going to be somebody important in life. By the “blessing of God” he had the ability to read words, which allowed for his slave masters to bring him into their home to learn about the word of God. Fast forward to […]
A CLASSIC (YET IMPERFECT) “ONE MAN ARMY” FLICK Within the action film genre, there lies a storied tradition of narrative storytelling that derives from the classic (yet always beloved) “one man army” yarn. There have been many of these films across the many decades of action cinematic history, yet they all roughly remain the […]
The Bikeriders is a 2024 film based on a book of the same name. The book is a collection of photography and interviews from the 1960’s into the 1970’s following the rise and fall of their bike club. From humble and simple beginnings to the seedier underbelly that creeps in as the story progresses, the […]
Nick Frost plays a cabbie with an attitude. This film has an interesting aesthetic but fails to do much more with it than the bog standard. I like the idea of a horror film about a cabbie driving down northern country lanes in the dark worrying about ghosts, however, in […]
I heard the buzz about Woman Of The Hour when it was playing festivals a while back. Now, it has arrived here in the UK on Netflix so I gave Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut a watch. To be honest I did not get the film I was expecting from pre-release hype, I feel that the […]
After Jackie in 2016 and Spencer in 2021, Pablo Larrain now completes his spiritual ‘women in gilded cages’ trilogy with Maria, perhaps the most intellectually interesting but the least immediately emotionally gripping of the three. This biopic of the last week of the life of beyond-legendary opera singer Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie), is in constant […]
Mainland Chinese actor Shen Teng/沈騰 is a hot commodity these days. His third film this year, SUCCESSOR/抓娃娃, is currently tearing up the domestic box office, taking in over US$456 million so far and becoming the country’s highest-grossing comedy in summer box office history. Shen is back again with UNTOUCHABLE and this one is a complete […]
Directed by Mel Gibson; Flight Risk is a new action/thriller starring Mark Wahlbeg, Michelle Dockery and Topher Grace. One in which not all parties aboard a very important flight are who they say they are. First came Jason Bateman as a terrorist in Carry-On (2024). Now we have Wahlberg, who’s usually a hero who saves […]