Director: Alan J. Pakula Starring: Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that All the President’s Men is a movie more preoccupied with the procedural side of the Watergate scandal than digging into any palpable emotional value. After all, we don’t get much insight into the personal…
Director: Bong Jong-ho Starring: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona and Go Ah-sung With Parasite Bong Joon-ho garnered international acclaim and popularity, even conquering the Academy Awards which have historically been elusive to foreign language films. Despite its unprecedented success Parasite was, in the context of its directors’ career, simply another evolutionary step….
In 2005 Noah Baumbach released The Squid and the Whale, a film telling a story of divorce witnessed from the perspective of two children. It was a film full of anger and confusion, as events far beyond the control of its two young leads spiralled out of control in front of them. Fourteen years later…
There is no doubt that the two trailers released thus far for Disney’s first foray into a big-budget live-action Star Wars TV show, The Mandalorian have already been mined for every subtle Easter egg and world-building detail. To spot each and every reference would take a person far more observant than myself, of which there…
Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci It is remarkable how time and experience shape the way storytellers view certain genres. Martin Scorsese has made far more movies outside of the crime genre over his 50-year career, and yet he consistently returns to the worlds of criminals and gangsters. No two…
Director: Robert Eggers Starring: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe In the late 19th century, a man by the name of Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) is sent to serve a contract as a lighthouse keeper along with his supervisor Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) for four weeks on a remote island. Robert Eggers’ 2016 directorial debut The Witch…
Director: Christopher McQuarrie Starring: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Michelle Monaghan and Alec Baldwin Roger Ebert once referred to a sub-genre of action cinema that he referred to as the “bruised forearm movie”. The kind of film that isn’t just exhilarating, but is relentless in its action to a point where you find yourself grabbing the arm of…
It’s hard to pinpoint precisely when Mission: Impossible became the revered franchise that it is today. With five films from five different directors, it stands as a unique series in the landscape of modern filmmaking wherein everything is designed to be cohesive and have a connective tissue. Every Mission: Impossible movie stands on its own…
Michael B. Jordan stars as Erik Killonger in Marvel’s latest blockbuster, Black Panther. He’s one mean dude, but there’s actually a whole lot more to him than first meets the eye, and we believe that he’s one of the best Marvel villains ever. Here’s why: WARNING: Some SPOILERS ahead for Black Panther. You have been…
Director: Ryan Coogler Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis So, on the one hand, Black Panther is a big deal for merely being another instalment of the juggernaut that is the MCU. But then, of course,…
Emma Stone is Billy Jean King and Steve Carell is Bobby Riggs in Battle of the Sexes, but is it game, set and match for the movie? Here’s our review.
The Florida Project is Sean Baker’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed movie, Tangerine, but does it live up to his previous effort? Here’s our review.
Annette Bening and Jaime Bell star in Paul McGuigan’s Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool. Is the film worth visiting? Check out our review to find out.
With Game of Thrones Season 7 having come to a bloody end, we delve into how the show has gone from being about political manoeuvring to full-blown fantasy.
Kathryn Bigelow is back with Detroit, which stars John Boyega as a security guard during the 1967 Detroit riots, but is it as good as her previous work?
The demonic doll, Annabelle, is back in Annabelle: Creation, but is it a horror sequel worth seeing, and is it scary? Here’s our review.
