Month: March 2019

• Border Review — It’s a cleverer title than you know

  

  So, Eva Melander’s Tina is a woman with this facial deformity who works customs in small Swedish port town, she displays the uncanny ability to literally sniff out those who come off the ferry smuggling contraband. When someone born with the same condition as her disembarks and volunteers to be searched, all of a sudden…

  E Warren

  March 13, 2019

  Film, POC Filmmakers, Review

  Ali Abbasi, Archive, Border, Cinema, Eero Milonoff, Eva Melander, Film, Films, Five Stars, Isabella Eklöf, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review

• Captain Marvel Review — Another one

  

  The moment that Captain Marvel starts working is when Brie Larson’s hero crashes in through the roof of a Blockbuster Video. If you thought that nerd culture’s recent spate of eighties nostalgia was overbearing, just you wait. The nineties are back baby. Her first reaction to it is to blow the head off a True…

  E Warren

  March 11, 2019

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Anna Boden, Annette Bening, Archive, Ben Mendelsohn, Brie Larson, Captain Marvel, Cinema, Djimon Hounsou, Film, Films, Gemma Chan, Jude Law, Marvel, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Ryan Fleck, Samuel L Jackson, Superhero

• On the Basis of Sex Review — Thirst trap

  

  Literally one of the first scenes in On the Basis of Sex is a love scene — as though the film wants to remind you that the octogenerian Supreme Court judge fucks. It’s got an odd structure: spending ten minutes profiling her time at Harvard Law School, ten hunting for jobs in New York, and…

  E Warren

  March 1, 2019

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Archive, Armie Hammer, Biopic, Cinema, Drama, Felicity Jones, Film, Films, Justin Theroux, Mimi Leder, Movie, Movies, On the Basis of Sex, Opinion, Review, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Three Stars