Ah the cinema, that famously social activity where you enter a dark room and sit in complete silence for a couple of hours. People are afraid to do a lot of things alone, and the cinema seems to sit high on that list for many. It is reductive to say that there aren’t social benefits…
Sam Raimi returns to dip his toes back into a genre he knows so well with this disgustingly entertaining and original horror-comedy. Prepare to be pulled in and then compelled to look away. The film follows Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams), an overworked and underappreciated numbers-cruncher in the corporate world who is othered and pushed around…
Finally arriving in cinemas over a year after its Sundance premiere and now with a slew of Best Actress nominations for Rose Byrne in tow, Mary Bronstein’s black comedy-drama about motherhood is a personal tale of nightmarish proportions. We are thrown into the life of Linda (Byrne), a therapist whose husband is away long-term for…
Unusually arriving before the BAFTA nominations (we’ll see how those shake out next week), the nominations for the pinnacle prize of Awards Season have finally been announced. In what has been a fairly steady and predictable season so far, there aren’t too many major snubs or surprises that haven’t been alluded to in the precursors;…
Reuniting with his Worst Person in the World star, Renate Reinsve, Joachim Trier returns with a delicate yet raw portrait of family dynamics that serves as a reminder than within each family unit, every individual is also a world unto themselves. We meet Nora (Renate Reinsve), an actress, and her sister, Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), as their…
And so, the second film post-Safdie separation arrives with Josh Safdie taking a very different swing at a sports-based film. Its breathless praise has nothing on how you feel by the time the credits role. Set in the 1950s and loosely inspired by a real person, Marty Supreme is Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), a man…
Song Sung Blue arrives with star power and an inspirational true story, but don’t be fooled by the feel-good marketing, this is a story that completely pulls the rug out from under you with many dark turns that would be unbelievable had they not actually happened. It will plaster a smile to your face but…
The cinematic resurrection of another long-lost genre has arrived: the starry airport-thriller adaptation. The Housemaid mostly delivers the kind of throwaway entertainment you want, but doesn’t become quite as fun as it could be until its final act. We meet Millie (Sydney Sweeney), a young woman living in her car, as she arrives at the…
James Cameron whisks us back to Pandora for a third outing, following directly on from The Way of Water. Whilst it remains an immersive epic, Fire and Ash feels more familiar than it should. We rejoin Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and their family as they are struggling with the grief of losing son Neteyam. Neytiri…
When I got home from seeing Wicked: For Good, I turned on my TV and happened to catch the glorious final 10 minutes of the cinematic masterpiece that is Mamma Mia! The contrast of one movie musical with another got me thinking about how important it is for the actors to be strong singers and the impact that…
