LFF 2022 Review: She Said is the Best of Journalism Movies
There’s this part of All the President’s Men that stays with me. Woodward and Bernstein doorstop a woman in need of answers....
Read MoreLFF 2022 Review: Causeway is Quietly Devastating
How does it feel to overcome major trauma? It’s not a catchy theme, it doesn’t sound pleasant and it’s difficult to...
Read MoreReview: Don’t Worry Darling is fine and that’s all it needs to be
Some recent history: Gaslight was released in 1944. Butterfield 8 in 1960, Stepford Wives in 1975, The Color Purple in 1985, Eyes Wide...
Read MoreElvis is Baz Luhrmann’s rhinestoned homage to JFK. This is breath-taking cinema.
The dictionary definition of Icon reads: “A person regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.” Of course,...
Read MoreTop Gun: Maverick is almost the best of the best
Top Gun: Maverick ends with a heart-warming gesture: a dedication to Tony Scott. That feels right. A mere 36 years earlier, Scott gave us...
Read MoreReview – Downton Abbey: A New Era – Come for the Dame, Stay for the Haddock.
The Venn diagram overlap containing viewers of Ari Aster’s Midsommar and Downton Abbey: A New Era can’t be large. Although radically...
Read MoreThe Lost City Nearly has the Right Formula. It’s just Missing the Sex.
Escaping to a desert island. Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Hollywood agrees, having recently released this and this. Add a steamy, romantic...
Read MoreFantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a Love Letter to Magical Masculinity
There is still a great deal of goodwill for the Wizarding World. So much so, that Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is now the...
Read MoreReview: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is Bursting with Ideas
For gamers, there are few more agonising sounds than the PLING! of Sonic the Hedgehog losing his gold rings, knowing he must scramble to...
Read MoreReview: Marry Me is Schrödinger’s Romcom
It’s at times like these that my mind wanders to Schrödinger’s Cat. Writers love to meme a scientific concept out of all...
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