Film Review: The Lighthouse (2019)
byDirector Robert Eggers’ second film is a dreary, deranged dream – strange and surreal and inscrutable. In The Lighthouse, Eggers, with a screenplay he co-wrote…
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Film Review: At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
byThe life and death of Vincent Van Gogh has been an obsession of the art world for 128 years now, and still the vision…
Film Review: Loveless (2017)
byAndrey Zvyagintsev, master of nihilism, focuses all his dark energies on his latest work Loveless. An existential drama about a lost boy, and in…
Film Review: Truth or Dare (2018)
byWhat better game to play when you’re a young drunk college student than an old-fashioned game of Truth or Dare? But don’t think the…
Film Review: The Florida Project (2017)
byFor many of us, childhood is the most wonderful of times. It’s when our curiosity peaks, when our uninhibitedness leads us to forge countless…
Film Review: Mountain (2017)
byAfter Sherpa it is hard not to be at least a little disappointed with Jennifer Peedom’s follow-up effort. Less traumatic diary, more meandering essay…
Film Analysis: Scorsese’s Cinema of Religion
byThere is no doubt that Martin Scorsese is most renowned for his Italian-American crime dramas of the ‘70s and ’80s. It would not be surprising…
Film Review: A Most Wanted Man (2014)
byIn the frantic search for answers following 9/11 it was discovered that many of the plans for the attacks were conceived in the historic…
Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
byWhen SNL recently made a fake trailer for a fake new Wes Anderson film called The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders and quoted The…
Film Review: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
byI have a dirty confession to make. I have never seen a Werner Herzog film. Not even Grizzly Man. I confess this lack of…