Mary and Max
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 […]
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Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo
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. […]
Mississippi Grind
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 […]
Three Colours: Blue
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 […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
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 Birth of a Nation (2016)
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. […]
American Honey
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 […]
Allied
Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt play unconvincing spies who unconvincingly fall in love and move to Hampstead in this unconvincing WWII thriller. Let’s call it Incredulous Basterds. Again Bad Pitt […]
Paterson
Adam Driver plays a bus driver called Paterson in a city called Paterson in the new film Paterson. Yes it sounds boring, but unlike most bus journeys, it’s actually surprisingly enjoyable […]
Labyrinth
The sorely missed David Bowie, former Python Terry Jones and Muppet overlord Jim Henson join forces for Labyrinth – the adventures of a teenager called Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) as she journeys through a […]
