A selection of some of the films we’re most looking forward to seeing this year. Or next year. Or whenever they finally come out. Hopefully this year. Last Night in Soho Is there a part of me that wishes to have a more interesting most anticipated than putting a new Edgar Wright film on here…
I’d like to start this list off with some honorable mentions: The Small Axe series: McQueen is one of my favorite filmmakers working today and this series further confirms that, but I chose to leave individual entries off my list to cover as much ground as possible. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: A late contender that…
Prior to the official kick off of 2020, I couldn’t think of a single film on the release slate for the year that I was genuinely looking forward to watching. All things considered, 2020 did turn out to be a better year for movies than it had any right to, what with the film industry…
In celebration of Guillermo del Toro’s birthday and in keeping with the horror theme for the month, we’ve put together a Staff Selects about a few of his films. Cronos With Cronos, his debut film, Guillermo del Toro was already beginning to show many of the tendencies he would lean into later in his career.…
It’s time to talk about TENET tuoba lkat ot emit s’tI. Christopher Nolan’s biggest – and messiest – movie yet stormed into theaters with the confidence that it could single handedly save cinemas around the world. Whether it’ll manage to do so remains to be seen; but considering the fact that the time traveling action…
The impending arrival of Christopher Nolan’s gigantic blockbuster, Tenet, has been met with a great deal of justified hand-wringing and concern about what message film critics send by reviewing any exclusive theatrical releases. “Is it morally justifiable to highly recommend a film that executives refuse to show outside of cinemas?”, is the question on the…
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If you’ve started reading this review against your better judgement, worried about spoilers, rest assured there is no cause for concern here. I could certainly divulge plot details—minor and major—but they would soon get lost in the shuffle. To say Tenet is heavily plotted would be an understatement. In the early stages especially, it is…
In memory of the legendary director and man who had more than 20,000 sexual partners, Joel Schumacher, this week we are taking a look at some of his greatest films. A Time to Kill Joel Schumacher had a real talent for taking any genre and making it his own. A Time to Kill, his second…
Honourable Mentions in random order: Gone Girl, The Favourite, Mad Max Fury Road, Tangerine, Paddington 2, Get Out, The Cabin in the Woods, Rango, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , Prometheus, End of Watch , About Time, Ex Machina , Guardians of the Galaxy, The Love Witch , Mother!, The Square, Silence, Under the Silver Lake The 25 25.)…
At the end of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, the characters lament that their world-saving victory will be unknown by the masses. Ben Stiller replies in a close-up, “we’ll know.” Something about that moment always stayed with me, and I still think about it ten years later (no, my ‘best of 2009’…
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