Call Me By Your Name is a Sticky, Slick, Impossibly Sweet Masterpiece
Call Me By Your Name is less a love story than a cinema of sensation: the tenderness of touch, the sheen of sweat, the cool calm of water.
The Ordinary Heroism of Only the Brave
Only the Brave does the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots justice by judiciously downplaying their greatness.
Of Female Bondage: Lady Macbeth vs the Patriarchy
We soon realise this is not another period drama about an unhappy wife learning to copy with country life.
Coco Sings a Brilliant Song of Family and Ambition
It’s testament to the charm and character of Pixar’s latest, Coco, that it can win a crusty critic like myself over without once deviating from Pixar’s established formula.
‘You’re Tearing Me Apart’s of Darkness: James Franco’s The Disaster Artist
James Franco’s The Disaster Artist clearly intends us to laugh at The Room’s Tommy Wiseau, but it also wants us to recognise his twisted genius.
When Good Films Aren’t For You: Borg vs McEnroe and Wonder
I’m not much of a fan of either Borg vs McEnroe or Wonder, but for their target audience – tennis fans and preteens/their parents, respectively – the films should be a hit.
Justice League is the Worst DCEU Film Yet
Five films in, what does the DC Extended Universe represent?
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is both sexy and overtly political, offering everything that its biopic contemporaries fail to deliver.
The Perilous Path from Stage to Screen: The Successes and Failures of Una
Una is more successful suggesting the vestiges of what would have made it a successful play than replicating them.
I Watched All Seven ‘Saw’ Movies In A Row And Don’t
I want to play a game.
The rules are simple. Before you sits a television, the seven Saw movies and a timer set to 666 minutes.
Watch all seven movies before the timer runs out; fail, and you’ll be subject to the most gratuitous, elaborate torture devices our team of underpaid Hollywood screenwriters can come up with.
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