Film Review: Good Boys (2019)
It feels like 12-year-old me – which was not that long ago – grew up in a different world to today’s kids. We didn’t…
Film Review: The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
One of my favourite things that Roger Ebert said was “movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts”. It speaks so…
Film Review: J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius (2019)
We’re living in the upside-down world. The jokers are in charge. Supporters are cults. People are living in feedback loops, their responses programmed and…
Film Review: Ballad of a Righteous Merchant (2017)
Werner Herzog’s own documentaries are interested in trying to visualise the invisible, in seeing inside the mind, the soul, and exploring the depths and…
Film Review: Yesterday (2019)
Yesterday isn’t a film to overthink. Don’t get bogged down in the details of how or why its world works, or what the rules…
Film Review: Tolkien (2019)
After watching Tolkien, one wonders what the estate of the famed writer – which strongly distanced itself from the biopic by Danish director Dome…
Film Review: The Night Eats The World (2018)
It’s a real skill to find the right way to express your creation. It’s okay if there’s not enough to sustain a two-and-a-half-hour feature…
Film Review: Greta (2018)
Neil Jordan has a long history of films that seem to divide opinion; opinions that change over the years as his films are reassessed….
Film Review: Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Two hundred million dollars. Thousands and thousands of hours of work. Hundreds and hundreds of talented people who excitedly told their families that they…
Film Review – Arctic (2018)
There’s something especially gratifying about watching survival movies. They can distil the human experience down to essential choices, bring into focus what’s really important,…