Tag: Universal Pictures

• Girls Trip Review – Oh God I realised that title is a pun too.

  

  It’s nice to see a studio comedy which is defined by its earnestness. Girls Trip engages full on with every moving cog part of its machinery. From the opening narration by a character who is unironically labelled the new Oprah, or perhaps the modern Oprah, it’s trying to be a film about connection. That old getting the band back together type deal. We’ve seen it in a lot of films recently, the old group of friends struggling to rebuild their connection over the unstable foundation of past slights, what sets Girls Trip apart is how much it cares.

  E Warren

  August 1, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, POC Filmmakers

  Cinema, Comedy, Film, Films, Four Stars, Girls Trip, Jada Pinkett Smith, Malcolm D. Lee, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Perfect World, Queen Latifah, Regina Hall, Review, Tiffany Haddish, Universal Pictures, Will Packer Productions

• Raw: I just realised, it’s probably about vegetarianism too…

  

  Holy shit. Holy shit y’all. Holy shit. Raw is Julia Ducournau’s first feature. It’s the sort of first feature people dream of making. The sort of debut that means something. It’s a French language film the screened in the UK with the standard Universal Pictures ident at the lead, that don’t just happen here. Not […]

  E Warren

  April 14, 2017

  Female Filmmakers, Film, Review

  Cannibal, Cinema, Drama, Ella Rumpf, Film, Films, Foreign Language, Garance Marillier, Horror, Julia Ducournau, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Rabah Naït Oufella, Raw, Review, Universal Pictures