“Maybe he’s undiscovered for a reason,” says Matt (Ben Stiller) about his sculptor father Harold. But for his half-brother Danny taking away the myth of their dad’s undiscovered greatness will destroy their excuses for Harold’s terrible parenting and four marriages: “if he isn’t a great artist that means he was just a prick.” This is a… Meyerowitz Stories (New & Selected) (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More
Thelma (New York Film Festival 2017) 4 stars
A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who’s in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results. Out hunting with his little blonde daughter in the forest, there’s a deer in his sights, and his gun is at the ready. But instead… Thelma (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More
Faces Places (New York Film Festival 2017) 4.5 stars
Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist J.R. journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship. Charming, eye-opening, and consistently hilarious, this photographic road trip through a series of French villages by two new friends, the 88 year old director Agnès Varda and 33 year old JR, a hipster artist known for his enormous photographs pasted… Faces Places (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More
The Rape Of Recy Taylor 4 stars
A young black woman in a long white dress runs along a road and through fields at dusk, repeatedly looking behind her. The footage is from a race film, movies made from about 1915 onwards, by black directors about black experiences, using mostly black casts. They enabled black stories to be told without the “white gaze”…. The Rape Of Recy Taylor Read More
Zama (New York Film Festival 2017) 3.5 stars
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires. It’s fair to say that Zama is one of those movies I’m enjoying more in retrospect that I did while actually watching it. As… Zama (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More
Madame Hyde (New York Film Festival 2017) 3.5 stars
Mrs. Géquil is a teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained? Madame Géquil (Isabelle Huppert) is powerless in the classroom. A particularly ineffective physics… Madame Hyde (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More
Super Dark Times (new York Film Festival 2017) 3.5 stars
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence. What do you do, after an afternoon with friends goes so badly wrong that someone gets… Super Dark Times (new York Film Festival 2017) Read More
Bad Batch 4 stars
Arlen doesn’t look back much, except one heartbreaking time when she cuts the arm off a picture of a woman in a magazine, before aligning her stump with the paper limb and posing in a mirror. She allows herself to be temporarily whole again, though no one here will ever be whole again. They just stagger on… Bad Batch Read More
If Gerard Butler Worked In My Office
Let’s face it, office life can be a bit dull. Times have changed and with a new more rigorous business culture you can’t even get pissed at lunchtime and photocopy your boobs anymore without some wet blanket reporting you for ink wastage. So just imagine if a really hot guy worked in your office. Tall, strong,… If Gerard Butler Worked In My Office Read More
Kingsman: The Golden Circle 3 stars
Harry Hart apparently died in Kingsman: The Secret Service, but after the 2014 film was such a huge hit it was obvious he’d have to return. Now he’s back, and while Kingsman without Hart is like a bespoke suit without a pinstripe, it does stretch credulity – even in an over-the-top, explosion-filled spy actioner already stretching credulity to gossamer-thin… Kingsman: The Golden Circle Read More
Victoria And Abdul 2.5 stars
One of the downsides of being a rich, powerful monarch who is a figurehead for billions is a lack of privacy, and In Victoria And Abdul one of our most famous queens has to give regular updates to her physician, while surrounded by servants and courtiers, of her bowel movements. Sadly the film, like Victoria herself, could… Victoria And Abdul Read More
And Breathe… Paul Mackie Takes Us Through The Making Of Collaborative Indie Film Breathe Easy
“I felt straight from the off that the only way to get people involved and invested in the film was to give them a sense of ownership of it… give them as much freedom as possible to do their thing” Paul Mackie Breathe Easy is a full length feature film made collaboratively by 20 directors in… And Breathe… Paul Mackie Takes Us Through The Making Of Collaborative Indie Film Breathe Easy Read More
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