Armageddon Time Review – Cannes Film Festival 2022 Alysha Prasad May 29, 2022 Reviews James Gray’s highly anticipated Armageddon Time is a coming-of-age memoir set in the 80’s based on Gray’s experience growing up in Queens, New York, as told through the life of Paul Graff (Banks Repeta)...
The Father – Review Phil W. Bayles June 16, 2021 Reviews Adapted by Florian Zeller from his stage play of the same name, The Father is a film about the ravages of time in the vein of Michael Haneke’s Amour. But while Haneke presented his subjects with clinical...
Bloodless Spectacle and Everyday Sexism in Silence of the Lambs Katy Moon February 1, 2021 Analysis, Features, Opinion Feminist author Betty Friedan dismissed the critical and popular success of Silence of the Lambs by calling it a film about “the evisceration, the skinning alive of women.” On the surface, her disgust is...
The Two Popes – LFF 2019 Review Jack Blackwell October 10, 2019 Reviews Anthony McCarten has, in recent years, made his name as one of the premier screenwriters of mass appeal but mediocre historical films like Darkest Hour and Bohemian Rhapsody. His latest, The Two Popes, teams...
Second Chance: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah (2014) Patrick Taylor September 12, 2017 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance A cursory look through the litany of reviews on its Rotten Tomatoes page will tell you that opinions on Darren Aronofsky's Noah are hardly ambivalent. And it would, admittedly, be wrong to deny that the film...
Transformers: The Last Knight – Review Phil W. Bayles June 21, 2017 Reviews Here’s a drinking game for you: take a shot every time Optimus Prime feels the need to remind us of his name over the course of Transformers: The Last Knight. You’d think that, after five of these movies,...
Scene Stealers: Sir Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs Daniel Orton February 13, 2016 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Dr Hannibal Lecter is without doubt the most terrifying villain ever to grace the big screen. FACT. The AFI has voted him the Number One villain of the last 100 years, out-villaining even the murderous loner...
Kidnapping Freddy Heineken – Review Stephen O'Nion April 5, 2015 Reviews Heineken’s protagonists are just "a bunch of local jerkoffs" hit hard by the recession, unfairly losing their business and their purpose. So why not kidnap a billionaire? So crazy, so true?! Well, it...
The Trip to Italy – Sundance London Review Tom Bond April 26, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment La bella Italia, La Dolce Vita – it’s all on display in this glorious Grand Tour, full of good friends and good food and, most of all, full of laughter. Brydon, and Coogan in particular, are less...
Noah – Review Cameron Ward April 5, 2014 Reviews 1 Comment Darren Aronofsky's liberal retelling of the classic Genesis myth is notably epic in both its newly modernised relevance, and its biblically requisite sense of scale. However, much of the tale's innate...