Three Minutes: A Lengthening, 2021.Directed by Bianca Stigter. Starring Helena Bonham Carter.SYNOPSIS:A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II.Documentary film at its best can be a potent vehicle for audience empathy, and […]
Movie Review – Aftersun (2022)
Aftersun, 2022.Written and Directed by Charlotte Wells. Starring Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, and Celia Rowlson-Hall.SYNOPSIS:Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she […]
Disney+ Review – The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, 2022.Directed by James Gunn. Starring Chris Pratt, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Kevin Bacon, Michael Rooker and Vin Diesel. SYNOPSIS: Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) is missing Christmas while in outer space, so his teammates Drax (Dave Bautista) and Mantis (Pom Klementieff) try to […]
Movie Review – Anaïs in Love (2021)
Anaïs in Love, 2021.Directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet. Starring Anaïs Demoustier, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Charles Clichet, Anne Canovas, Christophe Montenez and Xavier Guelfi.SYNOPSIS:A directionless young woman becomes fascinated with the writer wife of an older man after she begins an affair with him.Earlier this year, Joachim Trier’s terrific drama The Worst Person in the […]
Blu-ray Review – 5-25-77 (2022)
5-25-77, 2022.Directed by Patrick Read Johnson. Starring John Francis Daley, Austin Pendleton, Colleen Camp, Neil Flynn, Emmi Chen, Steven Coulter, and Justin Mentell.SYNOPSIS:5-25-77, Patrick Read Johnson’s autobiographical love letter to growing up on late 60s and 70s cinema, has finally seen its official release. It took him nearly 20 years to make the movie, given […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Highlander (1986)
Highlander, 1986.Directed by Russell Mulcahy. Starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart, Sheila Gish, Hugh Quarshie, and James Cosmo.SYNOPSIS:An immortal warrior is pursued through time by a brutal barbarian looking to be the ‘only one’.Continuing to trawl the vaults of their catalogue of cult movies from the 1980s to bring to 4K UHD, […]
Star Wars: Andor Episode 12 Review – ‘Rix Road’
Chris Connor reviews the season one finale of Star Wars: Andor…After the reset of ‘Daughter of Ferrix ‘ and the forces descending on Maarva’s funeral to spring a trap for Andor, the finale ‘Rix Road’, had a lot to live up to. Could the series, which has earned the best reviews for a Star Wars […]
Netflix Review – Wednesday
Shaun Munro reviews the first season of Netflix’s The Addams Family spinoff series Wednesday…As streaming services continue their industrious quest to plumb every last viable “IP” ripe for its own series treatment, in the very least a contemporary live-action adaptation of The Addams Family feels like a fairly natural eventuality. After all, little truly worthwhile […]
Movie Review – Spirited (2022)
Spirited, 2022.Directed by Sean Anders. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, Octavia Spencer, Sunita Mani, Aimee Carrero, Joe Tippett, Marlow Barkley, Maximilian Lee Piazza, Tracy Morgan, Jen Tullock, Andrea Anders, Adam Grupper, Rose Byrne, Naheem Garcia, and Judi Dench.SYNOPSIS:A musical version of Charles Dickens’s story of a miserly misanthrope who is taken on a magical journey.In […]
Video Review – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a rare perfect sequel
EJ Moreno with a video review of Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion…Rian Johnson is undoubtedly a talented filmmaker, but he possibly did his craziest cinematic trick yet. Johnson may have crafted one of those rare sequels that stand up to the original and could even outshine it. With Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, we’re seeing […]
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