Category: Films
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…]
The Shrouds review – David Cronenberg gets wrapped up in grief
David Cronenberg’s new film is a contorted sphinx without a secret, an eroticised necrophiliac meditation on grief, longing and loss that returns this director to [more…]
The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years
Donald Trump will not be the smallest bit worried by this genially ironic, lenient TV movie-style treatment of his early adventures in 70s landlordism, property [more…]
The Substance review – Demi Moore is game for a laugh in grisly body horror caper
Coralie Fargeat, known for the violent thriller Revenge from 2017, now cranks up the amplifier for some death metal … or nasty injury metal anyway. [more…]
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1: Costner casts himself as wildly desirable cowboy
After three saddle-sore hours, Kevin Costner’s handsome-looking but oddly listless new western doesn’t get much done in the way of satisfying storytelling. Admittedly, this is [more…]
Limonov: The Ballad review – Ben Whishaw brilliant as Russia’s outlaw bohemian
Fascism, punk, euphoria and despair … it’s all here, or mostly, in this hilarious biopic of Eduard Limonov, the rock’n’roll émigré Russian writer and patriot-dissident [more…]
