We’re here for big scale movies and rompy, cheesy film . Which is why we’re hella excited for The Thugs of Hindostan.
The Indian Hindu-speaking live-action film revolves around bandits who pose a serious threat to the East India Company.
This looks to be ridiculous but AMAZING. What do you think?
Thugs of Hindostan is out on IMAX in November
If you’ve been wondering what Peter Jackson has been doing lately, then check this trailer out!
The film revolves around old archive footage of WW2 that has been pieced together, coloured, and lovingly restored.
This looks like painstaking but worthy work. We’re excited to see this; what do you think?
They Shall Never Grow Old premieres at BFI London Film Festival!
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law…
Will Ferrell and John C Reiley.
Yep, the comedic duo tackle fictions greatest heroes.
Holmes and Watson is a mock movie of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed characters as they try to solve a great mystery. Natch.
While we’re excited for the reunion between Ferrell and Reily, there doesn’t seem to be anything truly funny here. But, Ralph Fiennes plays Moriarty so, we’re kinda game! What do you think?
Holmes and Watson is out later this year!
If your boyfriend invites you to a remote villa in the middle of the desert, don’t go. That’s the moral of Revenge, a French language blood-soaked rape revenge thriller from writer-director Coralie Fargeat.
Jen (Matilda Lutz) thinks she is spending some quality bikini time with her married lover, Richard (Kevin Janssens), who has invited two other guys to go hunting with him. There is a pre-hunt pool party. Sexually confident Jen dances with one of Richard’s friends. When Richard is out the next morning (fetching the paper, I dunno), Lascivious Lump One gets the wrong idea and is left to it by Lascivious Lump Two. When Richard gets home, Jen hopes for retribution. But errant males stick together. Jen runs for it, is pursued to a cliff edge and meets a grisly demise. Except she isn’t dead – (almost) broken-backed, but not broken-spirited, Jen fights back.
Don’t expect Shakespeare, or even Moliere (it is French after all). But Revenge is as visceral as cinema gets, slick and bloody – very bloody. The finale is, quite literally, a trail of blood.
As desert-based action films go, it is edge of seat stuff. You check your disbelief at the concession stand because you want Jen to have her revenge.
As far as subtext goes, there isn’t any. Revenge was made prior to the explosion of the #MeToo movement. Its nearest cousin is The Last House on the Left, but unlike rape revenge films made by guys, this one does not give the viewer the hypocritical and vicarious ‘thrill’ of an explicit rape scene – the act is suggested but not shown.
The ‘fun’ aspect of the film comes from the dwindling group of guys getting frustrated as Jen triumphs against them. Fargeat invites whoops and hollars. The purpose of the film is for female appreciation to shout down men, to end once and for all the idea that rape is acceptable.
If Revenge has its intended impact, then the audience response in the final hour and a bit of the film will be vocal and unequivocal. The best screenings – and I suspect these will be held at London’s Prince Charles cinema – will encourage participation as the revenge kicks in.
