A Grand Quiet

It’s hard to get the measure of Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga’s Richard and Mildred Loving at first. Both of these characters seem too small, both waiting to be defined by someone coming in and taking life’s major. We don’t get to see them fall in love, they already are in the very first scene…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…