Category: Review
1979 in Film: …And Justice for All
Norman Jewison’s Al Pacino classic American legal dramedy …And Justice for All (1979) is one of my all-time favorite films. Written by the then-married screenwriters…
Film Road to Halloween: It Comes At Night (2017)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 98 days to…
Film Road to Halloween: Paranormal Activity (2007)
The road to Halloween is paved with good films. Wherein we countdown to the spirited season with a hundred doses of horror. 99 days to…
1979 in Film: Mad Max
Big things have small beginnings. If there is cinematic proof to that statement, then one could go no further than Mad Max. Consider the most…
1979 in Film: Breaking Away – Cycling into Adulthood
‘Coming of Age’ like any other genre in cinema, is pretty diverse. On the one hand, it is populated with cheesy high-school dramas, with stock…
1979 in Film: Manhattan
It’s very difficult not to watch this movie without thinking: “What the fuck Woody?”. For those that have seen this film before, you know what…
Rewind 1979 In Film: All That Jazz
For a brief time in American cinema, the auteur reigned. No project was too epic in scale, no subject was off-limits, money was readily available…
Rewind – 1979 in Film: Kramer vs. Kramer
Recognising a piece of cinema which taps into its time and era with a narrative perfectly relevant and timely is something the Academy Awards do…
1979 in Film: Alien
I was probably 10 or 11 years old when I first had an interaction with the Alien franchise. I was at my Dad’s house when…
1979 in Film: “10”
This is a look back at “10“, a film by Blake Edwards, that I also like to consider: “Julie Andrews is way too good to…
Rewind, 1979 in Film: Being There
It may be 40 years since the release of Hal Ashby’s Being There, but somehow the film is even more relevant now. Especially with the…
1979 in Film: Steven Spielberg’s 1941
It’s probably contrarian enough to defend a movie like 1941 as a good film, but it may be futile to try to convince people it’s…
1979 in Film: Frank Langella’s Thirst Trap – On Dracula
An icon of both cinema and literature, few characters are as recognizable as Count Dracula. So many artists have taken a stab at Bram Stoker’s…
EIFF Exclusive Review: What She Said – The Art of Pauline Kael
Too often I come across the age-old question: What is the point of film critics? Every other month the debate as to whether we need…