Category: Cinema
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Venus and Serena Williams have a barnstorming 122 singles titles between them. Their careers are widely regarded among the greatest of all tennis players and athletes, period. This iconic household rivalry is traced in the sports-biopic King Richard through the lens of their father, Richard Williams, who passionately and controversially drove the girls to the…
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Steven Spielberg returns with a musical remake – but does it hit the high notes?
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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut is “inventively structured” according to Harry Geeves.
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Clint Eastwood, aged 91, returns with another director-star project.
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I have never had any interest in the Royal family. The elements of this film that drew me in were simply the talents of leading actress Kristen Stewart and score composer Jonny Greenwood (of Radiohead fame), so I was pleasantly surprised when Spencer, the new film from Jackie director Pablo Larrain, was formally and ideologically more in sync…
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Participating in the discourse surrounding Wes Anderson and his work is at once a tempting delight and an intricate challenge. Unmistakably, he has cultivated some of the most recognisably precise and glossy aesthetics in the contemporary filmscape. For better or worse, Anderson is an unrelenting force of cognizant eccentricity; slyly winking at viewers with sumptuous…
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**spoilers below!** The iconic slasher film franchise is back after the success of Halloween (2018). We see Laurie Strode (Jaime Lee Curtis), Karen (Judy Greer), and Allyson (Andi Matichak) exactly where we left them three years ago: hurt and rushing to the hospital. As for Michael (James Jude Courtney), he miraculously survives the fire…
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After years of telling people “Dune’s going to be great” and hearing back “why, what’s happening in June?”, the hotly anticipated adaptation of Frank Herbert’s legendary 1965 sci-fi novel has finally landed. Dune, as in the sand banks and definitely not the sixth month of the year, is a titanic, elemental slab of next-level filmmaking…
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Venom 2 is out- but is it Hardy any good?
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In the annals of film history, Apocalypse Now appears to be the only rival to match No Time To Die, the 25th James Bond film, as the most cursed production ever. It started with Daniel Craig’s early comments about never wanting to play Bond again and then there was the firing of original director Danny…
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As soon as the rumours surfaced of a Nicolas Cage collaboration with Sion Sono for the director’s first English language film, the internet was overjoyed and bursting with anticipation. Arising around three years ago, some wondered if said rumours would ever become a reality. However, 2021 saw the perfect zany match of Nicolas Cage –…
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James Wan’s impressive string of great films makes him one of the most reliably consistent horror directors, both in terms of quality and box office take. The acclaimed director of The Conjuring 1 and 2, Saw and Aquaman among others over the span of his twenty year plus career has solidified his status as and…
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A film finale to the cult favourite mockumentary sit-com which ran from 2014 to 2018, People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan centres around the Kurupt FM gang – a group of friends running a Pirate radio station. Reunited by their loyal manager, Chabuddy G (played brilliantly by Asim Chaudry), the gang discover that the…
