Koyaanisqatsi
Essentially an extended Philip Glass music video, Koyaanisqatsi takes a long, hard look at human civilazation through beautifully photographed scenes accompanied by some of Glass’s finest work. Beginning with stunning […]
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Love, Simon
Simon (Nick Robinson, not that one) leads a normal high schooler’s life (for “normal” read “charmed”) except that he’s keeping his homosexuality a secret in Love, Simon; a title that’s […]
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Celebrities dabbling as inventors is nothing new; who can forget Will.i.am’s smart watch that (inadvertently) doubles as a needle for drawing blood, or Gwyneth Paltrow’s bath salts that mask natural […]
A Fantastic Woman
After being conditioned to be wary of movies with “Fantastic” in the title (Fantastic 4, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Fantastic […]
Game Night
If you watched David Fincher’s The Game and longed for all the weird tension to be replaced by generic gags, might I recommend Game Night or a long hard look […]
8 Mile
Essentially Saturday Night Fever with hip-hop, 8 Mile stars Eminem as B-Rabbit, an aspiring rapper living in a trailer park outside Detroit. Eminem’s semi-autobiographical drama follows a tried-and-tested template, the only […]
Rabid
It never ceases to amuse me that comedy mogul Ivan Reitman produced a couple of David Cronenberg’s most shocking pictures, which seems incongruous until one remembers the messed-up body horror of […]
Dark River
Stop me if you’ve herd this one: a woman returns to the family farm following the death of a relative and tries to save the farm while haunted by the […]
Chicago
Of all the films set in Chicago (Grand Piano; Jupiter Ascending), only one is called Chicago… it’s Chicago. Based on Bob Fosse’s classic Broadway show, this 2002 musical follows Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger), […]
Lady Bird
If I were to throw around words like “indie”, “coming of age” and “Greta Gerwig”, you’d probably tell me to stop calling, how did you get this number. But this […]
Screen Goblin 