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Women Talking – There Has Never Been a Better Moment For This Story

Posted by on Dec 16, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Sarah Polley’s new film, Women Talking is her first narrative feature in eleven years. Before her lauded documentary Stories We Tell...

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Who is Jeanne Dielman? or How to get the most out of the Sight & Sound Poll

Posted by on Dec 12, 2022 in All, Film, Headline, News, Top 10 | 0 comments

Is film criticism elitist? Almost definitely, an opinion only exacerbated by the release of the latest Sight & Sound Best Films of all...

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LFF 2022 Review: The Banshees of Inisherin is brilliant

Posted by on Oct 21, 2022 in All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

Martin McDonagh’s work feels spare. His gift for economical storytelling creates believable characters in minimal screen time. These...

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LFF 2022 Review: She Said is the Best of Journalism Movies

Posted by on Oct 18, 2022 in All, biopic, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

There’s this part of All the President’s Men that stays with me. Woodward and Bernstein doorstop a woman in need of answers....

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LFF 2022 Review: Causeway is Quietly Devastating

Posted by on Oct 18, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 1 comment

How does it feel to overcome major trauma? It’s not a catchy theme, it doesn’t sound pleasant and it’s difficult to...

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Review: Don’t Worry Darling is fine and that’s all it needs to be

Posted by on Sep 23, 2022 in All, drama, fantasy, Film, Headline, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

Some recent history: Gaslight was released in 1944. Butterfield 8 in 1960, Stepford Wives in 1975, The Color Purple in 1985, Eyes Wide...

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Elvis is Baz Luhrmann’s rhinestoned homage to JFK. This is breath-taking cinema.

Posted by on Jun 20, 2022 in All, biopic, drama, Film, Headline, musical, Reviews | 0 comments

The dictionary definition of Icon reads: “A person regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.” Of course,...

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Top Gun: Maverick is almost the best of the best

Posted by on May 21, 2022 in action, All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

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...

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Review – Downton Abbey: A New Era – Come for the Dame, Stay for the Haddock.

Posted by on May 3, 2022 in All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

The Venn diagram overlap containing viewers of Ari Aster’s Midsommar and Downton Abbey: A New Era can’t be large. Although radically...

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The Lost City Nearly has the Right Formula. It’s just Missing the Sex.

Posted by on Apr 16, 2022 in action, All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Escaping to a desert island. Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? Hollywood agrees, having recently released this and this. Add a steamy, romantic...

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