Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
This Bronte soars.
A passion project from actor turned writer director, Frances O’Connor, EMILY is an imagined construct of the short life of Emily Bronte, author of the ethereal evergreen, Wuthering Heights.
Kate Bush took less than four minutes to …
From the fractured fairy tale by Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, THE AMAZING MAURICE is a sublime cartoon cat caper.
A rose by any other name would be a rodent end-em, this irreverent animation is a …
The first great thriller of the year is here.
AGE OF VICE by Deepti Kapoor is a blockbuster, sprawling, brawling crime saga set in the subcontinent in the first decade of the current century.
A kind of Crazy Rich Asians…
The first great film of the year, THE FABELMANS is Steven Spielberg at the top of his game.
“Most of my movies have been a reflection of things that happened to me in my formative years. Everything that a …
Geometrical and gastric, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS is the hypotenuse of Ruben Ostlund’s rise as a film maker of frank, confronting comedy.
Equilaterally grotesque, bizarre and brazen, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS is cynicism masquerading as optimism, or vice versa, an apex of …
A body is found in the snow on Christmas day. Golden haired, yellow booted, red sashed against the whiteness of the snow, some bit of colour in the scrupulous desolation.
So begins THE PASSENGER by Cormac McCarthy, a mystery mosaic, …
From daffy and endearing to daft and despairing, but never dreary, dull or disappointing, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN is another feather in the film making cap of Martin McDonagh.
Fourteen years after pairing them in his feature film debut, IN …
Forest Grump. And you can’t see the forest for the twee. Tom Hanks plays Curmudgeon sexagenarian Otto in A MAN CALLED OTTO.
Recently widowed and retired Otto is the quintessential angry old man next door, the self appointed and …
Feet are the natural stocking fillers, ankles and legs too, I sup-hose, but Yule tide lapping at the shores of the gift giving gulf of consumerterria demand other items to stuff the Christmas sock.
Put your money where your foot …
Clever clogs Steve Coogan comes up with another cracking yarn in THE LOST KING.
A more fitting title would have been Looking For Richard but that usurper, Al Pacino, had already plundered that moniker, and so Coogan and co-writer, Jeff …