Tár
Cate Blanchett plays accomplished yet manipulative conductor Lydia Tár, because naming her Ava would have been too ridiculous. They should have called it Miss Conduct. Despite its 15 rating for […]
Tag Archives: drama
Women Talking
Surprisingly for a year when Avatar 2 is up for Best Picture, Don’t Worry Darling has been snubbed by the Academy, though it does share eerie similarities with Oscar nominee […]
I’ve Never Seen…Cast Away
Until today I didn’t have a Crusoe what happened in Cast Away, the story of a loyal FedEx employee who is neither delivered nor returned to sender when his plane […]
Pig
Nic Cage goes from batshit to boaring in Michael Sarnoski’s sowr drama about a truffle forager looking for his stolen pig. Presumably Kevin Bacon was busy. The latest in the […]
Judas and the Black Messiah
In late ’60s Chicago, 19-year-old car thief William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) turns FBI informant to infiltrate the Black Panther Party and take down its charismatic leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya). Right […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
It is tragic how good Chadwick Boseman is in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a 2020 drama based on the eponymous “Mother of the Blues” (Viola Davis) who became one of […]
Little Women (1994)
Fresh from Thelma & Louise, Susan Sarandon takes on another feminist icon as the March family matriarch in 1994’s shot at Louisa May Alcott’s classic. That Little Women has been filmed […]
#HateFilms: Forrest Gump
Back in 2014, before we had COVID or Trump or Brexit to talk about, the news included the revelation that footballer Michael Owen had only watched 8 movies in his […]
La Haine
Re-released at this depressingly apt point in time, 1995 French drama La Haine (Hate) follows three disaffected youths (Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui) over the course of a […]
Beach Rats
19-year-old Frankie (Harris Dickinson) lives with his mum (Kate Hodge), but spends his nights at drug-fulled parties with his ‘wrong crowd’ mates, while secretly arranging late-night hookups with older men […]
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