Category: Review
Short Film Review: E.M.U: Emotional Motor Unit
What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to feel alive? And how do our own emotions affect our creative process? These are…
Romantic Comedy Review: Off the Menu
I’m not a huge fan of romantic comedies, I often find them cheesy, predictable, unrealistic and cliched; however I found Jay Silverman’s Off The Menu to…
Review: Phantom Thread (2017)
Paul Thomas Anderson is considered an acquired taste, akin to Woody Allen. One either likes or dislikes the filmography and requires a few or several…
Nothing Hits Harder Than Love: Exploring Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch Drunk Love
Punch-drunk syndrome is an actual condition which boxers and alcoholics suffer from, as dictioniary.com describes it “[it is] caused by repeated cerebral concussions and characterized by…
A Dream-Like Nightmare: The Master Review
In my opinion, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest three films feel like they are a part of an unofficial experimental trilogy. They each have a less…
Review: Bill Duke's 'Created Equal'
It was Thomas Jefferson that said: “[that] all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among…
Phantom Thread: An Ode to Hitchcock
Warning: This article does concern some spoilers. There’s a smug satisfaction that one feels when they recognise a reference. It almost seems like a secret that…
Survival of the Finest: Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk
Shortly before I embarked on my first screening of Christopher Nolanʼs latest motion picture Dunkirk back in July of 2017, I filled my face with a…
Review – 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
Psycho (1960) was revolutionary, it’s hard to fathom just how one film managed to change to entire direction of cinema, striking fear into the hearts of…
Review: Ben Stiller In Brad’s Status
Ben Stiller is more than capable of putting on a serious face and stop acting like a goofball, in order to show us all how he…
Review: Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of Water
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of Water uses the unlikely, surreal story of a romance between a mute woman (the excellent, poised Sally Hawkins) and a captive, sentient sea-creature played…
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Might Be Too Big
The release of a new Star Wars film has always been a huge event. It has become something that is hyped about up to a…
Indiana Jones and His Greatest Hits
I came across the exploits of Indiana Jones in 2008 in the form of the fourth installment of the series, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of…
Indiana Jones and the Return to Form
I’ll be honest: after Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, I was wary about watching the third outing, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I wasn’t…
