Yes, I am yoking three reviews and three films together, but bear with me, and we can ride on this makeshift oxcart together. It’s not just that two of them are from the BFI’s Woodfall collection, a recent boxed set of British New Wave classics; or that all three are […]
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She Shoots Straight (1990) There’s more to Joyce Godenzi than being Mrs. Sammo (Review)
Adam Ant in World Gone Wild – Pop Screen 93
The Almond and the Seahorse (2024): Low-key and Earnest Disability Drama (Review)
The Promised Land (2023) Sturdy stately drama from the big dogs of Danish cinema (Review)
After a botched stint in the Hollywood big leagues with The Dark Tower, Danish director Nikolaj Arcel is back on home turf with The Promised Land, a sturdy, stately period drama far more in line with his opulent breakthrough hit A Royal Affair. Putting stalwart Mads Mikkelsen to work as a complicated leading […]
20 Movies for Japanuray
Between Social Media and Marketing agencies, Japanuary is one of these traditions that happen every year, in which people portmanteau months to programme month long sessions into a particular movement – or, in this case, national cinema – into their cinematic diet. Giallo January is another common theme that people […]
Commedia all’italiana: Three Films by Dino Risi (1959-1962) (Review)
Commedia all’italiana, or Italian-style comedy, was a genre of Italian cinema that achieved considerable success from the 1950s through to the 1970s. These films, though farcical and/or satirical, placed a greater emphasis than before on realism, shooting on location and creating believable, three dimensional characters. They were united by the […]
Magnificent Warriors (1987) Michelle Yeoh + Hong Kong Action + Raiders of the Lost Ark (Review)
The Oscars vs Horror: NOPE will last
Nitram (2021) The psychological dread of the unseen and “powerless” (VOD review)
Justin Kurzel is a filmmaker who understands dread and how to instil this feeling in his audience. Across his oeuvre, Kurzel has consistently created environments and narratives that create a sense of dread through intimate framing that bring the viewer queasily close, familiar spaces where horrific events occur and performances […]