The Unknown Girl is the latest film from the Belgian Dardenne brothers, those purveyors of social realism who achieved critical and commercial acclaim most recently for their 2014 film Two Days, One Night, which starred Marion Cotillard as Sandra, a young woman who, following an absence from work due to […]
Month: February 2017
Charlie Chaplin: The Essanay Comedies (1915-1916) (Review)
Commenting on the ease of writing a review never needs to be brought up because it isn’t relevant. However, any notion of hardship from writing such an article typically comes from a need to evade spoilers. BFI’s Chaplin Essanay’s comedy set is different purely because of how uniform and similar […]
Cinema Eclectica 98 – Skeletor’s Leaning Tower of Rocks
Cinema Eclectica 98 – Skeletor's Leaning Tower of Rocks
Raising Cain (1992) John Lithgow’s Sandbox and the unexpected Director’s Cut (Review)
In Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow’s disarmingly forthright documentary, De Palma, its subject talks about the highs and lows of his career. In that one man and his camera documentary, there is one sentence that perfectly encapsulates how modest a man Brian De Palma is. He along with other directors do […]