Tag: Five Stars

• You Were Never Really Here Review – Right hand left hand

  

  I think You Were Never Really Here kinda holds up even better on the rewatch. Not to say that the first time viewing is bad in any way, but a mid-production budget cut the necessitated the excision of some fifteen pages of screenplay means that the sense of this adaptation is pushed within an inch…

  E Warren

  March 14, 2018

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Amazon Studios, Cinema, Ekaterina Samsonov, Film, Film4 Productions, Films, Five Stars, Joaquin Phoenix, Judith Roberts, Lynne Ramsay, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Why Not Productions, You Were Never Really Here

• Lady Bird Review: Everything I couldn’t be

  

  There’s mess in the life of Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson. Nothing quite adds up for her in the way it’s supposed to, or maybe she’s just getting the sums wrong. It’s telling in a way that the character is bad at maths and you ever really find out what she’s good at. Aside from making…

  E Warren

  March 7, 2018

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  A24, Beanie Feldstein, Cinema, Comedy, Film, Films, Five Stars, Focus Features, Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Saoirse Ronan, Tracy Letts, Universal Pictures

• Black Panther Review – More Marvel movie

  

  I think I habitually overrate Marvel movies. I mean, I’m pretty sincere when I consider them just about the most important contemporary releases. A decade seems to have been the right amount of time for these movies to mutate, a hybrid combination of pap and prestige. They are the most honest reflection of our culture…

  E Warren

  February 17, 2018

  Film, POC Filmmakers, Review

  Action, Andy Serkis, Angela Bassett, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, Cinema, Comic Book, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya, Film, Films, Five Stars, Forest Whitaker, Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Marvel, Michael B. Jordan, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Ryan Coogler, Superhero, Winston Duke

• Phantom Thread Review – Grace and delicacy

  

  It’s immaculate. Always is, always was going to be.

  E Warren

  February 13, 2018

  Film, Review

  Annapurna Pictures, Cinema, Daniel Day-Lewis, Drama, Film, Films, Five Stars, Focus Features, Ghoulardi Film Company, Lesley Manville, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Paul Thomas Anderson, Period, Phantom Thread, Review, Universal Pictures, Vicky Krieps

• The Post Review – StreepHanksThePost

  

  The story of The Post is that Spielberg first read the script under a year ago. While working postproduction on Ready Player One he somehow got permission from Warner to go make the thing.

  E Warren

  February 1, 2018

  Film, Review

  20th Century Fox, Bob Odenkirk, Cinema, Drama, Dreamworks, Film, Films, Five Stars, Meryl Streep, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Participant Media, Period, Review, Sarah Paulson, Steven Spielberg, The Post, Tom Hanks

• Coco Review – New life for Pixar

  

  I’m not sure if I were feeling particularly weak in the theatre yesterday. There was not a single point throughout Coco that I was not either laughing or crying. Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina’s film flies straight towards the top of the Pixar canon.

  E Warren

  January 16, 2018

  Film, POC Filmmakers, Review

  Adrian Molina, Animation, Anthony Gonzalez, Cinema, Coco, Comedy, Disney, Film, Films, Five Stars, Gael García Bernal, Lee Unkrich, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Pixar, Review

• Alive at the Bath Film Festival: The Florida Project

  

  If there be one thing The Florida Project keeps conspicuously absent from its frames, it is Disney. The film is set on the fringes of Disney World Florida in the underserved, underassisted world of the long term American poor.

  E Warren

  November 7, 2017

  Bath Film Festival 2017, Film, Review

  A24, Altitude Film, Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince, Cinema, Comedy, Cre Film, Drama, Film, Films, Five Stars, Indie, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Sean Baker, The Florida Project, Willem Dafoe

• Alive at the Bath Film Festival: Professor Marston & the Wonder Women

  

  I suppose we all have our gets. It don’t really matter how saccharine or whitewashy or manipulative queer historical fiction gets, I will always be onboard.

  E Warren

  November 6, 2017

  Bath Film Festival 2017, Female Filmmakers, Film, POC Filmmakers, Queer Filmmakers, Review

  Angela Robinson, Annapurna Pictures, Bella Heathcote, Biopic, Cinema, Drama, Film, Films, Five Stars, Luke Evans, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Professor Marston & the Wonder Women, Rebecca Hall, Review, Reviews, Romance

• God’s Own Country Review – Human and divine

  

  I’ll admit I’ve never been super into the whole masc side of the gay scene. It’s like, what you get if you take all the liberating aspects of queerness and infect that with the worst parts of toxic masculinity.

  E Warren

  September 8, 2017

  Film, Review

  Alec Secareanu, British, Cinema, Drama, Film, Films, Five Stars, Francis Lee, Gay, God’s Own Country, Josh O’Connor, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Picturehouse Entertainment, Queer, Review, Romance, Romantic

• The Big Sick Review – Love in the time of, oh, wait.

  

  There this thing which happen when comedians create autobiographical material and then cast themselves in it. Like, it’s an extension of everything they put up on stage, the way they turn experiences into stories, how their life is deliberately distorted around this stage persona they create. Everything around a comedian has to turn into comedy.…

  E Warren

  August 3, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Amazon Studios, Cinema, Comedy, Film, Filmnation, Films, Five Stars, Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Showalter, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Review, Romantic, Studiocanal, The Big Sick, Zoe Kazan