I don’t think Charlie Kaufman likes film critics. In his film, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, derived from Iain Reid’s 2016 novel, he has Jessie Buckley regurgitate large sections of Pauline Kael’s review of John Cassavetes’ 1974 film A Woman … Continue reading I’m Thinking of Ending Things – Review
Can teenage delinquency be cured by swift exposure to the outdoors? This question is tentatively explored in Get Duked, an energetic and mostly successful black comedy set in the Scottish Highlands. You’ll laugh, you’ll sink a tinnie. Written and directed … Continue reading Get Duked – Review
Since playing Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone’s 2016 biopic, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been off our screens for four years. Well, at least in physical form – he contributed vocal cameos to both The Last Jedi and Knives Out. Gordon-Levitt is … Continue reading 7500 – Review
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 … Continue reading Revenge – Review
It feels like decades since Richard Dreyfuss, Best Actor Oscar winner for The Goodbye Girl, headlined a movie. The star of Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind goes back into space in Astronaut, a gentle ‘follow your dream’ … Continue reading Astronaut – Review
If there is one thing we know from the movies, it is that American High Schools have factions. They train people to adapt to ‘house’ life in universities and then condition them to be ruthless business leaders or media moguls. … Continue reading Selah and the Spades – Review
