The French Dispatch – Review Alysha Prasad October 22, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. One of Cannes Film Festival’s most anticipated films, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, is a love letter to...
Sicario 2: Soldado – Review Rhys Handley June 28, 2018 Reviews Sicario 2: Soldado is an all-you-can-eat buffet of Trumpian anxieties – Mexican drug cartels are smuggling terrorists from the Middle East across the border into Texas. CIA enforcer Matt Graver (Josh Brolin)...
Love Letter – Sicario (2015) Jack Blackwell June 26, 2018 Features, Love Letter, Nostalgia War films generally have a hero. They pay lip service to the received wisdom that war is hell and people shouldn’t have to get caught up in it, but for the most part there are still clear ethical boundaries...
Your Week In Film: Harley Quinn, Predator, The Toxic Avenger, and more! Stephen O'Nion September 16, 2016 News 1. Harley Quinn set to return with a new squad of misfits Now that the dust has settled, let's please call Suicide Squad what it was: a frustratingly profitable piece of crap. Well, as the history of...
Why Timothy Dalton Is The Best Bond Conor Morgan October 21, 2015 Analysis, Features, Opinion 7 Comments Timothy Dalton got a bit of a raw deal when he finally relented to take on the mantle of Bond, James Bond in 1987. He was first asked 20 years before in 1967, but felt he was far too young at only 21 years...
A Perfect Day – LFF Review Rachel Brook October 13, 2015 Reviews From its striking opening A Perfect Day is grubby and real, filled with weathered props and beautiful aerial shots of the suffering landscape. Though it has a well-defined style – established in part by...
Sicario – Review Phil W. Bayles October 9, 2015 Reviews Early in Sicario, a shady government operative compares finding a cartel boss to “discovering a vaccine.” It’s a throwaway line, but it resonates in Roger Deakins’ breathtaking (and surely Oscar...