Tagged Cinema

Travelling at 99% of the speed of light, Clare Denis’s latest feature High Life sees Robert Pattinson’s Monte attempt to raise a baby daughter in deep space. Focusing on three distinct periods in Monte’s...

The Mule may be a film about drug cartels and police raids, but it’s also a film made by an 88 year-old. And even if his name is Clint Eastwood, that mature perspective defines the storytelling far more...

People fight on the Internet. Who knew? The latest bout of byte-slinging has been sparked by the release - or, perhaps, lack of release - of Alex Garland’s Annihilation. For context, the movie was...

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts – Jacques Derrida Cinema has always seemed the ideal bedfellow for explorations of grief and loss. It’s ingrained in the very origins of the...

When you’re young it’s not cool to like blockbusters. It’s not really uncool either. They’re just a fact of life. Cinema and blockbusters are one and the same. Star Wars, Back to the Future, Indiana...

We hate to break it to all the 14-year-old boys and alt-right shitheads out there, but Fight Club is not the best film ever made. Nor is it David Fincher’s best film. The same is true of Se7en, The Social...

The release of Some Kind of Beautiful on 25th September sees a 62 year-old Pierce Brosnan paired with both Jessica Alba and Salma Hayek – 34 and 49 years old respectively. This kind of gendered age gap...

In a perfect mix of pathos and comedy, The Second Mother brings light to something key to society: class divide. Regina Casé is a joy to watch as Val, who fosters the unshakable belief that she is a...

The idea that we can receive one final message from dead loved ones is appealing to us as humans, and is interestingly played upon through flashbacks interspersed throughout the narrative, demonstrating how...

“Oh, yes, I think South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is just terrific, and the numbers in it are wonderful” - Stephen Sondheim South Park is often written off by people who have almost certainly...

Ethan Hunt: super-spy, quasi-leader of top-secret government agency, and foundation of $2 billion film franchise. The humble 1960s American television show on which the series is based has been left far...

The Overnight manages to be honest about sex in long-term relationships without trying too hard to be sexy about it, and Jason Schwartzman steals the show throughout as the entrepreneur and artist who...

Well, Fury Road is pretty exciting, huh? No really. In a whole bunch of cultural ways, it's pretty goddamn exciting. Its female protagonist Furiosa, played by the frighteningly brilliant Charlize Theron, is...

2010 saw the release of Despicable Me, and the infiltration of some small yellow creatures spouting an unintelligible but undeniably enjoyable language. Although the film focused on the adventures of...

The first half of Return to Sender is a passable attempt at a sincere and sensitive look at the effects of sexual violence on a victim as she tries to reclaim her life and her home. The second half,...