No matter how many films you see, you never know when your next watch might become a seminal experience in your life. This recently happened to me when I finally watched The Red Shoes for the first time. Now, obviously this is an esteemed classic, lauded by cinephiles the world over and made by certified master filmmakers…
Maggie Gyllenhaal follows up her sublime directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, with a wildly original, huge swing of a film. Whilst it is exciting to see such a daring film supported by a big studio, unfortunately the film suffers from too many incoherent ideas that leave it in a mess. Set in Chicago in the…
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…
