Steven Soderbergh’s second film post-retirement could not be more different from his first. A filmmaker who has proven himself wildly versatile, he follows up last year’s quirky comedy, Logan Lucky, with a remarkably effective, and deeply disturbing psychological thriller. It revolves around questions of trust and feelings of paranoia which add up to a very…
With the ever-circulating rumours of a Call Me by Your Name follow up, proposed to take place several years after the original to pick up with Elio and Oliver at a different stage in their life, I thought I’d take a look at one of the most successful (and few) film series with intentionally spread out…
I’m going to start this feature by admitting that part of the reason for writing it is annoyance (albeit I had been planning to write a similar feature for a while). I watched Alex Garland’s Annihilation on Netflix last week and I am annoyed. I am annoyed that I didn’t have the option to see…
Our expectations for studio comedies these days are sadly that they’re going to be awful, and those expectations are based on a huge and consistent heap of evidence. Game Night, by contrast, hugely bucks the trend, delivering a comedy that not only contains a lot of laughs (a comedy making you laugh more than twice…
Greta Gerwig has previously proved herself as an actor and writer, and now she adds director (Academy-award nominated, I might add) to her skillset. With Lady Bird, she infuses a beautifully observed tale of teenagehood with such heart and humour; it’s hard not to find yourself falling for it. We encounter the titular Lady Bird…
Following last year’s inadvertently overtly dramatic Oscars, one that will certainly go down in history, last night’s affair was a tad uneventful (perhaps a plus for the producers following 2017’s Best Picture debacle). The awards themselves held no real surprises, even in races that weren’t locks, the favourite inevitably walked away with the trophy. The…
We’re now just one day away from film’s biggest night, and despite certain films and filmmakers sweeping up awards left and right at other ceremonies, this year’s Oscars seems a little more unpredictable. Last year’s Moonlight triumph in the Best Picture race threw a huge spanner in the works in being pretty much the only…
I, Tonya begins by stating it is ‘based on irony-free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly’, and the multiple perspectives this provides, combined with a snappy script and darkly comic sensibility, makes I, Tonya a blast of a film that entertains, whilst also humanising the figure at its heart. Whilst…
The first, and bigger, of two Donald Crowhurst films set to be released by Studiocanal in the coming weeks has arrived. It is an assured and affecting stab at the tragic tale, if one that plays it a little safe. Based on the true story of the amateur sailor’s attempt at the Golden Globe race…
Last night, the most prestigious awards in the British film industry were handed out in a show full of speeches characterised by Time’s Up, unsurprising winners, and a sweep of awards for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The biggest winner of the night, Three Billboards began by claiming the Best British Film award, and went…
