Jeff Nichols is a pronounced figure in American film and has for my money made thus far four very g…
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Read moreWhereas as much as JFK is a film about political and governmental mistrust and conspiracy as it is …
Read moreIn 1974, as aforementioned, Mel Brooks released two comedic masterpieces with his frequent and grea…
Read moreThere is a mission about Paul Schrader’s film American Gigolo, just as there is a mission about it’…
Read moreIn the 80’s boom of 50’s set nostalgia films there was more than a few that were set inside the pr…
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Read moreWithin both Edward Albee’s “ Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and Tennessee William’s “ Cat on…
Read moreAfter the incredibly promising Saint Maud, whatever Rose Glass was to do next was always going to b…
Read moreTruly one of the great losses in comedy film history is that of Colin Higgins, who after his major …
Read moreNow I have often gone on rants about sincerity in our movies of late, with so many frequently for m…
Read moreWhen it comes to absolutely solid and completely enjoyable horror that still manages to imbue genui…
Read moreOn paper Late Night With the Devil presents itself in a mould that inhabits one of my favourite pi…
Read moreNow for better or for worse, as has happened may times before and will happen I’m sure many times a…
Read moreTo paraphrase… somebody I think, a great film need only have a great opening, a great ending and tw…
Read moreComing home after the cinema I am often asked by my family what I thought of the film I just watche…
Read moreLord knows I love a 50’s physiological thriller and lord knows I love Anne Hathaway, which is why I…
Read moreN ow I gave Afterlife both an easy road and a hard road, an easy road in the sense that I gave the…
Read morePerhaps my most anticipated movie of the decade. Pardon me if I re-use this joke on the podcast but…
Read moreIn 1988, Alan Bennett did something rather unprecedented for the theatrical landscape of the era of…
Read moreI had high hopes for Lisa Frankenstein for many reasons and it is unfortunately so that for all it …
Read moreThere are odd films and then there are filmic oddities, Drive Away Dolls is such a film that is bot…
Read moreThere is no doubt in my mind that on a proficiency and craft level I may not see a better film this…
Read moreFirstly, don’t watch this film, watch Asif Kapadia’s Amy. Now read the review. I have made it ver…
Read moreThe ultimate achievement in Lawrence Kasdan’s cannon as a writer and director and the one that in m…
Read moreThis is a continuation of last week’s article exploring the earlier works of Brian De Palma. Cred…
Read moreThis is a continuation of last week’s article, exploring the works of writer and director Brain De …
Read moreThis is a continuation of last week’s article, exploring the works of writer and director Brain De …
Read moreTo start with I guess one must address the very British elephant in the room in that as a British c…
Read moreNow don’t get me wrong, this is still a 1/10 film, the sort of film that does make you wonder about…
Read more#Re-releaseWalkHardTheDeweyCoxStory I grow ever so ever so weary of the same cycle that goes with…
Read moreOver the course of the next three articles, I will explore and look at (in some cases for the fir…
Read moreAnybody who knows me will know that one of my favourite films of all time and one that I am constan…
Read moreSean Durkin’s The Nest was one of my very favourite films of the year of its release and so I was a…
Read moreThe end is always nigh. Such is the pain of life. But lets not eulogise just yet, whilst we still h…
Read more*The Thomas Carruthers Awards are a prestigious awards body comprised of 8 awards; Best Film, Best …
Read more*I choose these dates wholly arbitrarily based upon my U.K residence and the fact that due to my co…
Read moreThere is nothing I love more than audacity and originality that lands and in our current comedic la…
Read moreWith the strike and with COVID there has been an awful lot of sophomoric releases this year aswell …
Read moreI wasn’t disappointed by any means on first watch by The Holdovers, on a first watch in-fact I note…
Read moreEvery year an incredibly strong debut comes along that becomes a dark horse in the Oscar race and t…
Read moreI keep waiting to write the introduction where I note that this was Nichols weakest decade, and y…
Read moreThe morning of Saturday 3 rd February was a terrible series of events, two mainly. One was a car i…
Read moreDavid Fincher is in my all time top directors ranking – I mean when a man loves Benjamin Button and…
Read moreJonathan Glazer’s debut film was the sensational, incredibly volatile and high octane Sexy Beast, a…
Read moreThis year due to a plethora of reasons has ended up one where many of our great film-makers and man…
Read moreWell. Not in a very long time has my top three films of the year been of such an incredibly high ca…
Read moreI try whenever I can to read material before seeing their film adaptations, fortunately a holiday l…
Read moreSo it seems that Maestro is to be the film that is of this Oscar season one of my films to defend a…
Read moreI have to admit I feel rather ghoulish and guilty about how tepid I plan to be about this film, whi…
Read moreIn a year of bold projects for A24, Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario in many ways feels like a re…
Read moreThere have been two films this Oscar season so far that have been incredibly acclaimed that in a ra…
Read moreI would like if I may to reprint my concluding words from my review of 2022’s Ticket to Paradise; “…
Read moreIt happens every Oscar season to every film lover – that one film, or two, hopefully no more just d…
Read moreThere is indeed an intoxication and a seduction at the heart of Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, that on…
Read moreJonathan Glazer as a director is very singular in the respect that I don’t actually think you could…
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