Tag: Review
Film Review: Just Mercy
Every year with the awards season there are a few films that get pushed back to have their wide release in early January – simply…
Film Review: Little Joe
This reviewer is a particular fan of Lourdes, possibly the Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner’s finest work in a steadily prospering career. Her English language debut…
The Weird Experience of Watching ‘Last Christmas’
The trailer for Paul Feig’s Last Christmas has been shown before every almost every non-action movie over the last few months. Along with a poster…
Animation Review: Christmas comes to Netflix with ‘Klaus’
With the holiday season being dangerously close, an increase in holiday-inspired family movies can be expected. Netflix has become a major player in this time…
Film Review: Knives Out
After the absolute war that surrounded Rian Johnson’s name after The Last Jedi, it seemed destined that whatever the director touched next would be annoyingly…
Film Review: Earthquake Bird
Japan is a place full of traditions, culinary highlights but sadly also earthquakes. The earthquake might be a terrifying event but something wonderful happens every…
Documentary Review: Knock Down the House
The initials AOC have certainly trended on numerous occasions on Twitter over the last eighteen months or so. And even those of us not fully…
Documentary Review: The Great Hack
Pretty sure most of you are far more familiar with the Facebook data scandal a couple of years ago, than who or what Cambridge Analytica…
Film Review: The Very Last Day
Writer-Director Cédric Jouarie’s The Very Last Day is a captivating puzzle of a film. The first half of this Taiwanese film plays out like a…
Film Review: Doctor Sleep
It’s well documented that Stephen King did not care for Stanley Kubrick’s vision of his novel The Shining. As someone who loved the film, I…
Review: The Irishman (2019)
Never let it be said that Martin Scorsese is a filmmaker who does anything by half measures. The legendary director had been looking to adapt…
Film Review: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
The participation of Romania during World War II will likely go over the head of many. Depends what you’ve read. Or where you’re from. The…
Review: Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir (2019)
In the opening of The Souvenir, we are gifted some black and white footage of Sunderland, a northern English city, as Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne…
Film Road to Halloween: The Horror Masterpiece that is The Exorcist (1973)
Often I wonder with a kind of disappointed enthusiasm, what it was like to actually be around to see some of cinema’s greatest motion pictures…
