Le Mans ‘66 – LFF 2019 Review Rory Steabler October 10, 2019 Reviews It’s hard to think of a better recent example of dad-approved lazy-afternoon viewing than James Mangold’s Le Mans ‘66. Its combination of old-fashioned motorsports, tough-guy heroes, and loving...
By the Book: The Sisters Brothers Rory Steabler April 1, 2019 Analysis, By The Book, Features Patrick deWitt’s 2011 novel The Sisters Brothers is very funny. Jacques Audiard’s new film adaptation of that novel is significantly less funny. Despite (or really, because of) this, the film is a great...
Short of the Week – A Band of Thieves Rhys Handley January 8, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/246729336 One of the key pillars of postmodernist thinking is that there is no longer such thing as an original idea. We have too much culture and too much art, now it...
Checking in on the Modern Western Rory Steabler January 4, 2018 Analysis, Features, One Off Almost a decade ago, the 2008 Academy Awards saw an influx of Westerns. No Country for Old Men took the Best Picture statuette (among others), while nominations for sound and cinematography were dished out to...
Top 10 Modern Westerns Jack Blackwell September 20, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The Western was once one of Hollywood’s most important and bankable staple genres, but come the 1960s and the various changes that brought for the industry its popularity waned, never to recover save a few...
Retro Oscar Debate – No Country For Old Men vs There Will Be Blood Tom Bond January 22, 2016 Analysis, Debate, Features In the run-up to this year’s Oscars we’ll be running some debates on classic Oscar categories, beginning with 2008’s Best Picture nominees: Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood and No...
