Cinema
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Denis Villeneuve’s English language debut is a tough, gritty and downright chilly thriller about a man (Hugh Jackman) who takes the law into his own hands when his daughter goes… Read More
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Largely unwarranted biopic is less interested in the Princess’ final years than in punishing its audience with risible dialogue and obsessing over non-events. Read my full review here Read More
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Thrilling chapter in F1’s chequered history with dull business & techspeak stripped away to give the crowdpleasing human drama a clear run. Hemsworth is suitably charismatic as playboy James Hunt,… Read More
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Adele Exarchopoulos and Les Seydoux are both fantastic in this beautifully told story of young love, sexual exploration and the search for your own identity. Perhaps it didn’t need to… Read More
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Woody Allen is on top form here & Cate Blanchett is at the height of her powers. An utterly believable, sympathetic, loathsome performance. A clear awards favourite. Read More
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I’ve enjoyed and shared Nacho Vigalondo’s debut feature many times but this was the first time I had seen it on the big screen. Fantastic Fest had a special screening… Read More
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An excellent tale of family feuds and bloody revenge. Great direction and a knockout performance from Macon Blair. Read More
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Beautifully directed study of loneliness, grief & how best to preserve dead girls, buoyed by a pair of brilliant performances. Read More
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The latest work of absurdist humour from Japanese comedian Matsumoto is extreme, even by his own bafflingly delightful standards. On the face of it, R100 is set-up as an outrageous… Read More
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One of my favourite films of the year and winner of the Next Wave award at Fantastic Fest. Pitch black satire on high school, our media-saturated society & how quickly… Read More
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This one beat me down with its beautiful imagery and trippy dreamlike ambience. Another casualty of long-distance travel combined with late nights and long hours spent in darkened rooms. I… Read More
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Another one-gag movie from Fukuda Yuichi that gets by on the strength of its child actors long after the joke gets wearisome. Read More
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I loved Jim Mickle’s remake of Jorge Michel Grau’s equally impressive Mexican cannibal drama. Script changes all justifed & well handled, performances strong & Catskills setting beautifully eerie. Read More
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Gorgeously rendered neo-giallo thriller from the makers of Amer. A dream-like, near incomprehensible assault on the senses that seduces with its intricate composition and rich audio-visual landscape, but remains narratively… Read More
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Vidyut Jamwal stands to take the martial arts world by storm after a dynamic breakout performance here as the titular one man army in Dilip Ghosh’s ridiculously entertaining action movie… Read More
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Visually arresting Dutch crime drama succeeds in bringing humanity and empathy to a repulsive monster. Read More
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Insane, terrible, brilliant and powerful exploration of victimization and the power of faith in the face of evil. Never has a film had a more ironic title. Read More
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