Category: Film
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Hacksaw Ridge
With Hacksaw Ridge the the cinemagoing public finally get to see the return of one of Hollywood’s most famous couples: Mel Gibson and his Catholicism! They are returning to the screen for the first time since 2004’s The Passion of the Christ. Despite their long absence as a couple from the public eye, and the…
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Gold
Gold is a movie at war with itself. Not sure who to place the blame on here, much of the fault lies in Matthew McConaughey’s central performance but such problems should have been obvious throughout the whole process. It’s not a bad performance, on the surface it’s as accomplished as any of his recent work.…
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Denial
You know, the producers of Denial really lucked out. The could be no time in the past decade, possibility even longer, better to release your film about Holocaust denial. We got that whole Trump problem, the growing popularity of far-right politics in the western world, the rise of the alternate fact and fake news. Holocaust…
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Jackie
In the UK, when the queen dies, because some day she will, we cancel comedy until after her funeral. It’s one part of this officially recognised national mourning ceremony. The BBC will cancel all the comedy, our queen is dead, why should the people laugh. It’s weird cos the BBC ain’t a particularly archaic body,…
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T2 Trainspotting
T2 Trainspotting is not an experimental feature-length music video. Sure does seem like it though sometimes, like there ain’t enough here so they put in more music and more. It’s not a boring movie by any means, anything with Danny Boyle and Anthony Dod Mantle behind the camera is always going to be have something…
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Sing
There’s something about Garth Jennings’ feature filmography. They’re always unexpected works. I mean, Hitchhiker’s Guide (which demonstrates pretty confident ambition for a debut); into the small and personal Son of Rambow; into Sing, a bi-budget, all-star animated comedy. He do a pretty good job with all of them too, they all got their flaws but…
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Manchester by the Sea
I count myself lucky as someone who has never had to seriously grieve. Like, I’ve engaged in it, speculatively, voyeuristically. Joined in the ashes when our icons die. The news of Robin William’s passing spread a cold wave through my university campus a few years ago. I never felt that attachment, in my own life…
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xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
xXx_Th3.R3turn.0f.X4nd3r.C4ge_xXx has a title ripped straight from my MSN Messenger contact list circa 2006. it has a philosophy to match, as Sam Jackson so eloquently puts it, ‘Kick ass, get the girl, try to look dope when you do it.’ If anyone can manage that it is Mister Vincent Diesel esq. There’s always those murmurs…
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Lion
Lion is about as good as its poster tells you it will be. Which is mostly very. I guess given the success of Room last year this is going to be the visual language for heartfelt drama for a while. Which I guess is okay, but then Collateral Beauty had a similar design so it’s…
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Split
Split has some great title design, created by the prolific Aaron Becker, I really like the effect they lent to the opening of this picture. Shame the rest of the flick was a garbage garbage trash heap. For some reason people are taking Shyamalan seriously again. Why? The man has done nothing to deserve it.…
A Grand Quiet 