25. Enemy 24. Her 23. I Saw The Devil 22. Walden 21. Tower 20. Lost River 19. A Long Day’s Journey Into Night 18. The House That Jack Built 17. Blue Valentine 16. Mother! 15. High Life 14. The VVitch 13. Post Tenebras Lux 12. Apocalypse After 11. Hard To Be A God 10. Holy…
“Secrets between you, God, the Devil, and the dead“. Bill Condon‘s drama thriller, The Good Liar, boasts two great performances from acting royalty Dame Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen. Their chemistry is authentic, magnetic, and intoxicatingly charming, making it all the more astonishing that this is their first collaboration. For a film shortly under…
Though still far from having equal representation in front of the camera (and even further behind it), recent years have seen an increase in the amount of big budget films led by women. I see this as a step in the right direction- cinema should be more varied and all stories should be told- but…
I’d love to say The Lighthouse is an ambitious failure – that Robert Eggers tried to tap into something heady, existential, or even primal, and just wound up coming up short. If only it were a thematic or narrative mess, or an admirable but flawed attempt at provocation that unfortunately missed the mark. Instead, Eggers’…
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