Tag: 2016

The hyperactive, refreshing journey that Asian cinema can sometimes take you on is exemplified by Train to Busan, from South Korea, a pulsating, edge-of-your-seat thrill-ride…

To boot, I loved almost all the separate components of the film individually but I didn’t love the resulting bundle. Aesthetically, my eyes were gently caressed…

  Hey everybody. My name is Al Robinson, and as much as I love movies, I equally love making lists, especially lists about movies. Last…

Taking a break from the apparent horrors of soldierhood, Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a brooding, guarded man, whose post-traumatic stress disorder hangs from him like…

The Cannes Film Festival is a real special and integral part of the movie year. Many of those films shown there to the very lucky…

There are many moments in The Light Between Oceans when cinematographer Adam Arkapaw beautifully captures the rich tones of both night and day amidst the…

Horror is Here to Stay. Whereas 2015 was a year for horror to experiment metaphor, narrative, and aesthetic (see: The Falling, Spring, Goodnight Mommy, It…

Somehow 2016 has not ended for me. The acidic taste left by the temper tantrums thrown by spoiled citizens in the world’s most privileged countries…

Did the studios fiddle while Rome burned in 2016? In other words, should Hollywood have done more to stop Trump and the Republican Party taking…

Nocturnal Animals takes the split-plot of a woman reading her ex husband’s latest book, in which we follow her reaction (and current blemished life status),…

As acting goes, both Meryl Steep and Hugh Grant pulled another rabbit out of their hats in Stephen Frears’ latest blend of the comic and…

If director Stéphane Brizé loved a slice of heart-string-tugging cinema, or sentimental story-telling, then you wouldn’t possibly know given his  latest movie, The Measure of…

There are old fashioned crime tales of outlaws and the law on their trail, and gripping family dramas driven by blood and money. David Mackenzie’s…

There’s an apparent school of thought with Ben Affleck as an actor, as in one with talent not just a chiseled jaw-line. There’s his early…