Border
This Swedish fantasy follows a customs officer (Eva Melander) whose Neanderthalic features make her an expert at sniffing out contraband but equally a social outcast, hence the title. Imagine Bright […]
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Caravaggio
Caravaggio is an art movie in every sense of the term, following the famous painter as he creates his vivid chiaroscuro masterpieces, and uncovering the emotional states that led to […]
What They Had
Blythe Danner’s family comes home for Christmas after she has an Alzheimer’s episode in What They Had, a name so forgettable it’s almost appropriate. Alzheimer’s Episode might be more apt a […]
ROH: Frankenstein
Frankenstein is one of the most-told works of classic literature. On this blog we’ve reviewed the Boris Karloff version, a Christopher Lee version, the Gene Wilder/Mel Brooks version and even […]
Fighting With My Family
This is the true story of a Norwich-based family with wrestle-mania who all dream of fighting in WWE. Brother and sister Zak and Saraya (Jack Lowden and Florence Pugh) compete […]
Shoplifters
Shoplifters is a Japanese drama that lost the Foreign Language Oscar to Netflix’s Roma, which Steven Spielberg thinks is a TV movie – bit rich coming from the director of […]
The Breaker Upperers
This New Zealand comedy follows a pair of women (Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami) running a company that breaks up couples – essentially Hitch but, like the way toilets […]
Behind the Curve
This brilliantly titled Netflix documentary is about the growing trend for flat eartherism, a belief which has found new life in a growing movement of 21st century empiricists who don’t […]
On the Basis of Sex
Felicity Jones deals out gender justice as future Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, AKA The Notorious RBG. The film starts with a breakneck journey through Ruth’s Harvard days, as […]
The Kid Who Would Be King
When a bullied schoolboy (Louis Ashbourne Serkis, son of Andy) finds Excalibur on an abandoned building site, it’s up to him and a ragtag group of classmates to thwart the […]
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