Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
The introduction of a lion in the first act raises the Chekovian edict that someone will be eaten before curtain down.
Called Clarence, this rather lethargic Leo is one of the many telegraphed tropes in Michael Winterbottom’s sermonising satire of …
As priceless as poo paper in a pandemic, the patter in SHIRLEY is literate and lacerating.
Like some semi-Gothic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, SHIRLEY is a macabre dissection of the zombie corpse of the harried, married life of middle …
WAVES is sonic cinema, full of sound and fury, signifying everything.
The first thing you are aware of in writer-director Trey Edward Shults’ WAVES is the sound. It’s loud music played in a car full of teenagers, the camera a …
There’s so much more to a book than just reading said Maurice Sendak. If that statement needs illustrating, I can think of no better example than the film THE BOOKSELLERS.
A celebration of the psychic capacitors that are books, THE …
X marks the eccentricity spot as idiosyncratic solicitor Rupert Grey, and his wife Jan a free-spirited upper-class English couple in their sixties, married for 35 years and on the verge of retirement, decide to drive Rupert’s father’s 1936 Rolls Royce …
Seems the Fins are the forefront of fine film making at the moment.
Among the best films you can stream currently is Dogs Don’t Wear Pants and for those who want to venture back to the cinemas, there’s the life …
“I know how the heart works” says surgeon, Juha.
As an anatomical pump, he surely does, but his love lacerated heart, cut to the core by the sudden death of his wife, gets an unexpected CPR from an SM practitioner …
I don’t know.
It’s a refrain that ripples through THOM PAIN (BASED ON NOTHING)
Like most of us, confronted with life at the best of times, we don’t know.
In the grip of a novel virus, perhaps we don’t know …
For those purist cineasts who rue the advent of sound, the new film from the Nazarine Jacques Tati, Elia Suleiman, IT MUST BE HEAVEN, must seem like heaven.
Although technically not, IT MUST BE HEAVEN is tantamount to a silent …
Not to be confused with the beloved long running ABC TV soap, BELLBIRD is writer-director Hamish Bennett’s tender, often funny slice of life on a New Zealand North Island dairy farm.
On the face of it, BELLBIRD seems an uneventful …