Film Review: Faces Places (2017)
byOn the face of it, filmmaker Agnès Varda and artist JR make an improbable team. Varda is an 89-year-old female director who initiated the…
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Film Review: Sweet Country (2017)
bySweet Country is about cruelty in a beautiful land. A bitter country would also be an apt title. Cinematographer and director Warwick Thornton returns…
Film Review: The Commuter (2018)
byBefore you ask, yes, he says it. Well, not the whole thing. But he does comes close. “I will kill you,” Liam Neeson declares…
Film Review: The Shape of Water (2017)
byThere’s been much anticipation for Guillermo del Toro’s latest feature. With a highly successful festival run (taking home best director and score at the…
Film Review: Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017)
byHaving previously directed Studio Ghibli’s final film When Marnie Was There, Hiromasa Yonebayashi has returned to our screens with the debut feature of Studio…
Film Review: The Post (2017)
byThere is generally always some friction between governments and the media. In recent times, nowhere has this escalated more quickly than in the United…
Film Review: All the Money in the World (2017)
byIf you kept up with any film news in 2017 it would have been hard to miss the equally turbulent and fascinating production of…
Film Review: Big in Japan (2018)
byYou may know the phrase ‘Big in Japan’, perhaps from a 2014 film, a 2009 TV Series or even a 1985 song by Alphaville. It refers to…
Film Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
byThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, written and directed by Martin McDonagh, is both emotionally raw and hilariously irreverent. And despite its somewhat cumbersome title,…
Film Review: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
byIt’s a common complaint that cinema has nothing new to offer these days. And that’s wrong, because if you care to expand your viewing…