Category: Films
Parthenope review – Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody
Paolo Sorrentino, for over 20 years one of the most vibrant and distinctive film-makers, is coming close to self-parody with this new film, which conceitedly [more…]
‘This garbage is pure fiction’: when subjects hit back at their biopics
More than any film at this year’s Cannes film festival – more than Megalopolis or that film where Demi Moore pushes Margaret Qualley’s face out [more…]
In Flames review – Pakistani horror mines the patriarchy for terror and despair
Pakistan’s patriarchal society is a too credible source of horror in this promising feature debut from Canadian-Pakistani writer/director Zarrar Khan, whose gallery of violent, predatory [more…]
The Garfield Movie review – foul feline origin tale is littered with product placement
There’s not that much to Garfield. Understanding the orange tabby of funny-pages repute is pretty simple: he has a set of integral, inalienable traits – [more…]
Pandemonium review – wintry gloom as ghost of dead driver meets the biker he killed
This Stygian jolly, in which dumbstruck driver Nathan (Hugo Dillon) finds himself out of the mortal coil after colliding with a motorcycle, has some of [more…]
Saturday Night Fever dancefloor to be auctioned with $300,000 estimate
So, how deep is your pocket? The dancefloor used in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever has been put up for auction with an estimated [more…]
Anora review – stellar turn from Mikey Madison in sex work non-love story
What would Pretty Woman look like if it bore the smallest resemblance to the reality of sex work? Maybe something like this, Sean Baker’s amazing, [more…]
The Boy in the Woods review – boys’ own tale of Holocaust fugitive forced to fend for himself
This sweet if somewhat sentiment-and-string-section-forward Canadian film tells the true story of Max (Jett Klyne, impressive), a Jewish boy aged 12 from Warsaw, trying to [more…]
5lbs of Pressure – drugs, murder and a likable Rory Culkin in low-key crime drama
Set in New York City and filmed in Manchester, England, here is a film that aims to play like a feature-length episode of The Wire [more…]
The Apprentice: Trump campaign threatens legal action over biopic that depicts him as a rapist
The Trump campaign has come out swinging against The Apprentice after the film, which depicts the former president raping his first wife, shocked audiences at [more…]
