When The Holdovers was advertised last year, I wasn’t very excited, but I was pleasantly surprised, and it became one of my favourite films. I had the same initial thoughts when watching the trailer for Black Bag. It was very underwhelming. I should have remembered the Alexander Payne comedy drama because Steven Soderbergh’s second film…
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The Holdovers
They often say they don’t make movies like they used to. Alexander Payne, the director of such small-scale comedy dramas as About Schmidt, Election and Sideways, has managed to do exactly that. The Holdovers is a bitter-sweet tale of three very different characters brought together during Christmas; we are lucky enough to watch them grow….
The Menu
A few weeks ago, we had the satire Triangle of Sadness, which depicted the rich and wealthy having a time on board a luxury yacht. Now we have The Menu, a perfect companion to the movie, as mentioned earlier, in which we have an exclusive restaurant for the super-rich, which turns out to be a…
Downsizing
Director: Alexander Payne Starring: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig, Rolf Lassgard, Ingjerd Egeberg, Udo Kier. Written by: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor Running Time: 130 mins Cert: 15 Release date: 24th January 2018 Downsizing, the latest film from director Alexander Payne, famed for the likes of About Schmidt, Sideways and Election, looks like…
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
Director: David Zellner Starring: Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley Venard, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, Kanako Higashi Written by: David Zellner and Nathan Zellner Running Time: 105 mins Cert: 12A Release date: 20th February 2015 Imagine, if you will, that after finding a hidden video tape of the Coen Brothers 1996 classic, Fargo, believing that it’s a treasure map to…
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