With The Witches celebrating its 30th anniversary this week, George Nash takes a look at the legacy of Nicolas Roeg’s terrifying family film… In the filmography of the late British director Nicolas Roeg — a career spanning just shy of 50 years — two movies stand out from the rest. Both are adaptations of literary […]
Kingdom of Heaven at 15: Mediocre historical epic or compelling 21st Century comment?
With Kingdom of Heaven turning 15 this week, George Nash looks at how Ridley Scott’s underrated epic remains an important examination of 21st Century religious and international relations… Like the plight of Jerusalem’s dwindling forces as they struggle to hold off a 200,000-strong Muslim army during the film’s final third, Kingdom of Heaven was fighting […]
Movie Review – Blood Quantum (2019)
Blood Quantum, 2019. Written and Directed by Jeff Barnaby. Starring Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Olivia Scriven, Stonehorse Lone Goeman, Brandon Oakes, William Belleau, Devery Jacobs and Gary Farmer. SYNOPSIS: An indigenous community in the early 80s must fend off a zombie invasion. In the life span of any zombie flick made […]
Movie Review – Moffie (2019)
Moffie, 2019. Directed by Oliver Hermanus. Starring Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Hilton Pelser, Stefan Vermaak and Wynand Ferreira. SYNOPSIS: During South Africa’s apartheid era, a conscripted teenager must conceal his same-sex desires. In a recent interview with the Guardian, Capetonian filmmaker Oliver Hermanus, when discussing his fourth feature, remarked that he […]
Ranking the songs of Joe Exotic, Tiger King
George Nash ranks the musical output of the infamous Tiger King… Joe Exotic, the eccentric subject of Netflix’s hit true-crime series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, is a man of many talents. Be it big cat breeding, 80s hairstyles or blowing things up in increasingly ludicrous ways, Exotic (aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joseph Schreibvogel), […]
Exclusive Interview – Alex Wolff on Human Capital, Nicolas Cage and an obsession with sharks
George Nash chats with Alex Wolff about his role in Marc Meyers’s drama Human Capital… At just 22, Alex Wolff has already garnered the kind of eclectic filmography very few actors achieve in their entire career. From hit indie horrors to studio franchises to writing, directing and starring in his own movie, Wolff’s CV reads […]
Movie Review – Calm With Horses (2019)
Calm With Horses, 2019. Directed by Nick Rowland. Starring Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar, Ned Dennehy, David Wilmot and Anthony Welsh. SYNOPSIS: A boxer-turned-mob enforcer is torn between his loyalty to an Irish crime family and his estranged real one. After starring alongside Florence Pugh in 2016’s devilishly dark Lady Macbeth, the lure of […]
Movie Review – Military Wives (2019)
Military Wives, 2019. Directed by Peter Cattaneo. Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan, Jason Flemyng, Greg Wise, Emma Lowndes, Gaby French. SYNOPSIS: With their partners serving overseas, a group of women on the home front come together to start a choir which, in turn, inspires a global movement. It’s been over twenty years since The […]
Movie Review – True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
True History of the Kelly Gang, 2019. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring George MacKay, Essie Davis, Orlando Schwerdt, Thomasin McKenzie, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Hunnam, Russell Crowe and Sean Keenan. SYNOPSIS: A retelling of the life story of infamous Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly, from a troubled childhood to his eventual demise at the hands of the […]
Movie Review – Vivarium (2019)
Vivarium, 2019. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg and Jonathan Aris. SYNOPSIS: After an encounter with a strange estate agent, a young couple looking for the perfect home become trapped in a mysterious neighbourhood in which all the houses look identical. Terror finds a home in the home in Vivarium, Irish filmmaker […]
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