by Chris Connor Cold War films can perhaps feel pedestrian and slow, so different was the period to the one we live in today, yet they often highlight the tumultuous nature of the time and how close the world was to the brink of nuclear disaster. The Courier from On Chesil Beach’s Dominic Cooke focuses largely on the British and Soviet stalemate of the early … Continue reading The Courier – Review
by Anton Bitel The Night House begins with a montage: a boat rocking against a jetty, a beautiful timber lakehouse above, and multiple shots mapping out the the house’s interiors. What unifies all these images is their emptiness. For there is no human presence in or around this house, apart from in the framed pictures standing on surfaces or hanging on walls – photographs depicting … Continue reading The Night House – Review
Edoardo Vitaletti’s mid-nineteenth-century family fable is a toxic tragedy of Calvinist oppression and resistance Continue reading The Last Thing Mary Saw – Review
by Jordan King Not many folks will recall the tumultuous journey Dreamworks’ The Croods took to make it to the big screen in 2013. Having originally been announced under the title Crood Awakenings in 2005, the Stone Age set story of a luddite, his family, and the inventor who comes to rock their world was originally to be the first film of five unique Aardman/Dreamworks … Continue reading The Croods 2: A New Age – Review
by Amelia Nancy Harvey Guy (Ryan Reynolds) wakes up and lives the same mundane day over and over again. He has a closet filled with blue shirts and brown slacks, drinks the same coffee, has the same conversation with his buddy called Buddy (Lil Rel Howery), and deals with a robbery at his job as a bank teller. It’s clear that Guy’s life is somehow … Continue reading Free Guy – Review
by Chris Connor 2021 has been a bumper year for Lin Manuel Miranda with the big screen adaptation of his musical In The Heights earning wide praise and with his much anticipated directorial debut Tick Tick boom due later in the year in addition to providing the music to Disney’s latest Encanto. Miranda’s most recent project is the animated Vivo where Miranda has both composed … Continue reading Vivo – Review
