The French film Breathless is regarded as a milestone in cinema history. A French New Wave classic by controversial director Jean-Luc Godard, it was a film that threw the rulebook of storytelling and filmmaking out the window. It has since become an influential film for filmmakers and film students alike. Richard Linklater, the director of…
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If there is one thing that you can guarantee with a Sam Raimi film, it’s that it’s going to be tons of fun. The director of The Evil Dead know what an audience wants when going to the cinema. Something that doesn’t take itself too seriously, some interesting visuals and a film that zips along…
Is This Thing On?
Most comedians are famous in their home country, but few translate to other countries. So it was a huge surprise when it was announced that Liverpudlian comedian John Bishop was having a movie made based on the events that led to him becoming a comedian. Is This Thing On? is a movie directed by actor…
Mercy
In a time when the debate over the good and the bad of artificial intelligence is raging, we need a movie to help with the arguments. Mercy, unfortunately, is not that movie. A silly, science fiction whodunnit in which two big-name stars are limited to being in one room, talking to each other while surrounded…
Rental Family
Rental families have been a huge business in Japan since the 80s. They are companies that hire actors to serve as family members or friends for events or to fill emotional gaps. This is something that I certainly haven’t heard about before, but now, with the arrival of Rental Family, a sweet, gentle comedy drama,…
The Voice of Hind Rajab
It’s not often you sit in a cinema with a packed audience in stunned silence during the end credits (unless there is some sequence you are expecting). Still, it happened with The Voice of Hind Rajab, a powerful, gut-wrenching drama based on actual events during the Israeli-Gaza war, that doesn’t need to be seen; it…
Marty Supreme
The thought of watching a movie about a man who wants to be the face of table tennis in the 1950s might not sound like the most exciting experience, but this is far more than just that. Marty Supreme is from director Josh Safdie, part of the Safdie brothers who brought us the intense Uncut…
Song Sung Blue
Trailers can be very deceiving. Take, for example, the one for The Holdovers. It doesn’t sell the film well, and yet it’s one of the best Christmas movies around. The same could be said of Song Sung Blue, a biopic of a married couple who became a Neil Diamond tribute act. It doesn’t do the…
Peter Hujar’s Day
There is never an issue if you see a film about someone you’ve never heard of before, as, if you become invested in the movie, you want to find out more about them. Peter Hujar was a gay photographer from the 70s, whom I didn’t know a thing about when entering Peter Hujar’s Day, and…
Avatar: Fire And Ash
There aren’t many film franchises where I could say I don’t care. Some are bad but bearable, while others worsen progressively. Still, James Cameron’s Avatar films just don’t do anything for me, to the point that even though cinema is going through a terrible patch at the moment, I want the third entry, Fire and…
Eternity
They often say that they don’t make them like they used to. Once in a while, a film tries to debunk that accusation. Eternity is one such film, a screwball romantic comedy that takes the beats and rhythms of past movies and gives them a modern edge. While it might not be entirely successful, you…
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
It might be coincidental, but in the same week as the release of the Agatha Christie 4K box set of her classic 1970s murder-mystery movies, with massive stars as suspects, we get the third in Rian Johnson’s Christie-style thriller, which started with Knives Out back in 2019 and continued with Glass Onion in 2022. Wake…
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