Featuring a wonderful British cast including Samantha Barks, Robert Kazinsky, Tony Way and Anna Chancellor we have the utterly hilarious For Love Or Money. Our film follows Mark, a man set to inherit £20m on a secret business deal. Little does he know that Connie, a girl he was in love with for…
Capernaum is a MASTERPIECE. Nadine Labaki’s naturalistic yet still slightly aesthetically heightened direction is on full, brilliant display for two hours. The script she co-wrote with Jihad Hojaily and Michelle Keserwany uses effective melodrama in all the proper ways. Telling an emotionally gripping story about a young boy who has to make some large growing-up…
Based upon the supposed haunting of Borley Rectory in Essex Steven M Smith tells the infamous tale which weaves in and around true events. The Haunting of Borley Rectory is set in 1944, years after the Rectory burnt to the ground. Regardless of the building being all but rubble spooky visions are still being witnessed…
This movie got buried. Not sure why – it’s f**king awesome! Here’s our Vox Lux review. Written and directed with serious aesthetic panache by Brady Corbet (from a story he co-wrote with Mona Fastvold), this is the grittier side of A Star is Born, and far more compelling and bold from where I sit. The…
When it comes to slasher parodies I don’t tend to look much further than Scary Movie. They nailed the spoof genre firmly on the head and for me it hasn’t really been topped since. I was asked to check out Camp Death III in 2D last year but never got around to it until director Matt…
Not only is Jonah Hill one of the funniest people on the planet with the most impeccable sense of comedic timing (and a damn fine dramatic screen presence when he wants to get serious), he can now be considered a smart and stylish filmmaker, as his writing/directing debut, Mid90s, is 85 minutes of pure awesomeness….
Suddenly, everyone on the planet begins to have a meltdown of their collective senses. Everything that we take for granted, every single day, gets thrown into chaos; unexpected fits of rage, compulsive eating, spontaneous deafness, loss of taste, and sudden blindness. Directed with extreme care and control by the eclectic filmmaker David Mackenzie (Starred Up,…
I’ve become something of a regular customer with Mathew Cullen’s vibrant and ambitious director’s cut film version of the celebrated British cult novel London Fields. Over multiple viewings, I’ve been able to pull something new and interesting from the experience, especially on a visual level; London Fields is jam-packed with verbal and pictorial information…
A bit too long-winded but still quite entertaining and definitely constructed with considerable narrative skill and cinematic style, Bad Times at the El Royale is a stylish neo-noir mystery that benefits from a great soundtrack, terrific production design (Marin Whist), and slick cinematography (Seamus McGarvey), with strong performances from a cool ensemble. The less you…
Karyn Kusama’s hardcore police drama Destroyer, from a jumbled yet effective script by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, allowed Nicole Kidman to get down and dirty as she’s never been on-screen, with the veteran actress dropping a studied performance that fits right in line with the demands of the cynical, modern day, cop movie formula,…
If Beale Street Could Talk, which serves as Barry Jenkins’ confident follow-up to his Oscar winning Moonlight, is a bittersweet romantic drama that further underscores the racial divide in America, whether it be from decades previous, or right now in the moment. The film takes a perceptive (and saddening) look at how race defines everything…
John Huston’s The Man Who Would be King is a cinematic feat. It is a remarkable fable, tracking two con men as well as adventures who trek deep into a dangerous land with the design of ruling a region where white men have not set foot since Alexander the Great. The film encompasses engrossing performances,…
Let’s just imagine for a second that The Inbetweeners left Joe Thomas who plays Simon alone at a music festival for a bit and we have the movie The Festival. Full of shit, piss and all sorts of childish jokes I still had a big grin on my face like a little child throughout this…
Juliet, Naked is the sort of traditional and appealing romantic comedy that has been entertaining audiences for years. We’ve seen the formula before and we roughly know the ultimate outcome; it’s the journey of getting there that has to be unique enough to make it all worthwhile, and that’s why this movie succeeds. Directed by…
If there was ever a film that demanded to be seen by as many people as possible, it would be Blindspotting, the absolutely ferocious debut from director Carlos Lopez Estrada and the supremely talented writing and acting team of Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, who have teamed up to create something strikingly alive and volatile,…
Lucas Hedges is a force to be reckoned with in Ben is Back, the new film from his father, Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life, Pieces of April, About a Boy. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape), who wrote the dark and introspective original screenplay, and had the creative nerve to cast his son in the lead…
