Tag: Films
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The Death of Louis XIV Review – What it says on the tin
The Death of Louis XIV promises one thing and slowly, agonisingly delivers upon it. The opening credits play over the king of France being pushed around the palace gardens for the final time, after the title card hits we do not spend even a single second outside his quarters. The king remains in his bed…
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David Lynch: The Art Life Review – Pretty normal actually
David Lynch is one of those dudes who just seems to be good at everything. Like the dude paints, makes films and music, he writes. Somehow he’s managed to maintain his legitimacy as a visual and video artist even during his experimental periods where he did a syndicated newspaper comic strip or weird aggressive internet…
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War for the Planet of the Apes Review – I mean, kinda.
There ain’t no reason why these fucking chimp movies gotta be so goddamn good. Like this one starts with an on screen text introduction summarising the last two films in the series because even the creators know that they don’t got an A-list property on their hands, they can’t trust their audience to have even…
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Cars 3 Review – Old broken things
Cars 3 is a bold choice. Like the choice to use your state of the art animation technology to beautifully conceive (seriously Pixar’s landscaping work is just exploding year on year) what is essentially the plot of some 20 mil Fox Searchlight joint don’t make no sense on the surface. They’ve also made this total…
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A Change in the Weather Review – A film for actors
My love for this film is entirely selfish. So is this review. So is the five star review I’m going to give it.
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The Midwife Review – Who you gonna call (I hate myself)
I imagine The Midwife might play on a deeper level to me if I retained any knowledge of the careers of Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot.
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It Comes at Night Review – Guess what
We’ll start with the obvious. It Comes at Night is a poor title for a film in which nothing actually comes during the night.
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Despicable Me 3 Review – Stealth minions
This is the first Despicable Me film to launch post Minions.
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Alone in Berlin Review – Solitary companionship
Alone in Berlin is the rather inconsiderate remark of a man who travels along his whole woeful journey with his supportive wife at his side.
A Grand Quiet 