Tag: Review

This may be a personal issue, but there’s something about Andrea Arnold‘s brand of wallowing realism that never quite brings a point to its misery….

So May We Start? The opening film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Annette, directed by Leos Carax and written and scored by Sparks. It is…

At some point, everyone wants to be healthier. Everyone has tried to be a better version of themselves. Some of you will have thought of…

After a highly-publicised reshuffle of Disney’s executive team in 1984, newly-appointed CEO Michael Eisner and head of Walt Disney Pictures Jeffrey Katzenberg were keen to…

In the late ’80s to the early ’90s, there was a desire for blood. Built by the backbone of toxic masculinity and love of displays…

A Short Film About Killing opened in Poland in March 1988. Two months later, it played in competition in Cannes, where it won the Jury…

Coming-of-age films trade in nostalgia and relatability, so it makes sense that so many are about young men. The male experience is the generic one,…

Amidst the avalanche of franchise sequels and campy B-movies that seemed to dominate horror in 1988, a handful of horror’s big names were releasing some…

“They live, we sleep” is written on the wall of a vacant church where the protagonist, an unnamed man, wanders in search of answers. Currently…

It was only until this year that I saw for the first time Running on Empty. A family drama that is best known as the…

There’s something uniquely American about the genre of the “buddy movie.” Ever since Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy got into all kinds of trouble together…

Everyone has fallen in love with an image that is unattainable. But what happens when it becomes so unreachable that it begins tearing your life…

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Tim Burton’s 1988 Beetlejuice fuses comedy and horror to create a classic film. With Michael Keaton in the titular role, we delve…

“For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every…