Film Review: Hotel Mumbai (2018)
byIn November 2008 ten members of a terrorist sect operating out of Pakistan traveled to Mumbai. Over four days they massacred 174 people. In…
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Film Review: On the Basis of Sex (2018)
byIn 1956 Harvard had five hundred students enrolled in its prestigious law school. Nine of them were women, one of which was Ruth Bader…
Film Review: Sorry to Bother You (2018)
byAcerbic and hysterical, Sorry to Bother You, directed and written by Boots Riley, is a scathing indictment of capitalism. Imagining an alternative vision of…
Film Review: Call Me by Your Name (2017)
byEver since it got its long awaited debut at Sundance at the beginning of the year Call Me by Your Name has earned a…
Film Review: Final Portrait (2017)
byIn the mid-20th century, Swiss-Italian artist Alberto Giacometti was one of the leading proponents of the surrealist movement. You may well have seen some…
Film Review: Free Fire (2016)
byDirector Ben Wheatley’s vein of comedy is darker than most. It is probably a dark shade of red actually. He and screenwriting buddy Amy…
Film Review: Nocturnal Animals (2016)
byNocturnal Animals opens with a jarring and disorienting sequence, one which is likely to fascinate and perturb viewers in equal measures. Middle aged and…
Film Review: Legend (2015)
byRonnie and Reggie Kray (Tom Hardy) were identical twin brothers who rose to control the criminal underworld in London’s East End during the 1950s…
Film Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015)
byImagine someone has a great video on their phone to show you. Do you want them to keep the phone in their pocket and…
Film Review: The Lone Ranger (2013)
byFor a producer, Jerry Bruckheimer sure does leave his mark on pictures. The Lone Ranger is a classic wild west tale, much as the Pirates of the Caribbean series is a classic pirates-on-the-high-seas franchise, and it has all the action, and violence, you would expect from a wild west, with a little humour thrown in for good measure.