Category: Cinema

Wes Anderson seems like the sort of person who, in childhood, was far more interested in analogue and organic things than digital technology. The first thing that may strike viewers as they watch The Grand Budapest Hotel, is the visual language that Anderson has commands here and  all of his previous films. Many detractors have dismissed his films…

When was the last time you looked into the eyes of a stranger and really considered what lies under the skin? Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin is an experimental odyssey unlike any film in recent memory due to its outlandish form, unusual in an English-language film. This is a true art film with strong elements of…

A neurotic self-pluralising computer analyst desperately seeks the reason for human existence in a self-collapsing future populated by talking heads and giant lycra onesies. Well, it could only come from Terry Gilliam. The king of kookiness returns to the genre he once defined with a fresh new take on the world we have to look…

I expected nothing but brutal violence, stunning visuals, beefy oiled men and a hint of homoerotism from Noam Murro’s 300: Rise of an Empire, and in a slow motion tidal wave of blood, sweat and pathetic fallacy, it delivered. For an hour and 42 minutes we endure two armies of anonymous waxed meat men in…

Forget about the disastrous Twilight series and their so-called modern representation of vampires, Jim Jarmusch has just renewed (saved) the archetype of the immortal lovers. The film soberly opens with a red gothic font on a black background. She, in Morrocan Tanger, is lying in a bedroom covered with books from every language. He is…