Your Week In Film: Tombs, Terminators, Taika Waititi Stephen O'Nion September 22, 2017 News 1. Mother! Bombs! Things didn’t look super swell for Mother! when it got booed at Venice Film Festival. They looked worse when it got an F rating from Cinemascore, an organisation that polls moviegoers...
Scene Stealers: Barbara Hershey in Black Swan Cristina Radulescu September 17, 2017 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Remembered mainly as the cinematic backdrop for Natalie Portman’s thespian crowning achievement, Black Swan is Aronofsky’s successful attempt at bestowing an Icarus twist on a classic tale, as he depicts...
Mother! – Review Jack Blackwell September 15, 2017 Reviews Both booed and applauded at the end of its first screening at Venice Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! is a raucous, vicious horror-thriller that also happens to be utter nonsense. It hangs together...
Stories From The Set: Requiem for a Dream Thom Denson September 14, 2017 Features, Stories from the Set This weekend sees the release of Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie, Mother!, a film in which the New York auteur torments his collaborative (and, to those of us not above the gossip columns, romantic) partner...
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...
White Bird in a Blizzard – LFF Review Cameron Ward October 25, 2014 Reviews Carried by both Woodley and Green’s arresting portrayal of familial detachment and sexual frustration within “perfected” 80’s suburbia, White Bird in a Blizzard takes on great pace, but little...