Tag: Review
1957 in Film: Until They Sail
Until They Sail (directed by Robert Wise) is a World War Two romance set in New Zealand. Featuring the four Leslie sisters and their romantic…
Film Review: Richard Jewell
Clint Eastwood’s directorial grip has loosened quite a bit in the last few years. Sully was the definition of the word ‘fine’ and The 15:17…
Film Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
French director Céline Sciamma has been well-known amongst those who are into European cinema for some time now, with her films Water Lillies, Tomboy and…
Film Review: Little Women (2019)
If Film Twitter were the ones to find the magical genie lamp from Aladdin and use its power to make a movie, chances are 2019’s…
Festive Film Review: Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974)
Producer and director, Bob Clark, must have some affinity for the festive season, given he is perhaps best known for two movies. Porky’s aside. In…
Film Review: Uncut Gems
HOWARD! Uncut Gems has been a film to grow and expand since debuting at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival. Easily becoming A24’s biggest awards season…
Film Review: 1917
From the very start of the year, Sam Mendes’s 1917 has loomed over 2019, waiting until the last minute to drop and make its impact…
They Sort-Of Stuck the Landing – Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
All chapters have a beginning, middle and end. How you stick the landing for that concluding arc matters. We remember The Return of the King…
Film Review: Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker
There has never been a review that has caused more nerves while preparing to write it than this one. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker…
How Dare Real Life Intrude Into My Fantasy! Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
You’re George Lucas: you’ve just created what other filmmakers only dream of doing and so rarely accomplish – creating a cultural phenomenon. Audiences loved it,…
The One That Started It All: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Greetings, you stuck-up, scruffy-looking nerf herders! As the final chapter of the Skywalker Saga hits theaters with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, my Master,…
Documentary Review: American Factory
Here in the UK there’s a view from some floating in the wind about, say, the Polish coming over to England and taking our jobs….
Film Review: The King
Since his breakout role as the sexually confused teenager Elio in Call Me By Your Name, a large portion of Film Twitter (including myself) have…
Film Review: Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman – now on Netflix
Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated mob saga The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro as the late mob assassin Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran (1920-2003) is a dream…