Passengers
I always envy characters in cryosleep; spending decades in an induced state of hibernation sounds brilliant. Particularly if you get to sleep through a film as thoroughly abysmal as Morten […]
I always envy characters in cryosleep; spending decades in an induced state of hibernation sounds brilliant. Particularly if you get to sleep through a film as thoroughly abysmal as Morten […]
Mary (Toni Collette) is an 8-year-old living in Melbourne; Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a 44-year-old New Yorker. The two become unlikely pen pals in this Australian animation. Aardman meets […]
As a huge fan of the rock bands Primus, Phish and the Grateful Dead, I had to seek out this 2006 comedy starring, written and directed by Primus frontman Les Claypool. […]
This 2015 road movie stars Rogue One‘s Ben Mendelsohn in a much more down-to-earth role as down-and-out gambler Gerry, who befriends the slightly younger Curtis, played by Ryan Reynolds; he’s Hollywood’s own gambler’s fallacy: bet on […]
Last week, Theresa May called for a “red, white and blue Brexit,” which was very European of her considering those are famously the colours of the French Tricolore. Based on […]
If nothing else, 2016 has given us a new Star Trek and Star Wars film. The only other year this has happened was 2002, fact fans. So it’s been a great year […]
The latest anime film so good it’s found its way to British cinemas is Your Name, from director Makoto Shinkai. It follows two young people, Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi) and Taki […]
100 years after D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation comes this slavery drama of the same name – not a remake, but a symbolic appropriation of the racist film’s title; The Birth of a Namesake. […]
Released in 1915, The Birth of a Nation is a historical epic aiming to present the history of America from the Civil War to the rise of the Ku Klux […]
The most overused naming convention in the history of cinema strikes again with American Honey, an indie road movie about an 18-year-old girl called Star (Sasha Lane), who meets travelling magazine […]