To tie in with one of this week’s new releases Alice, Darling starring Anna Kendrick we look at those actors who have stepped out of there comfort zones in the name of their art. Many have gained critical recognition, other possibly deserve some. One thing they all have in common is in the past they… Read More Actor Who Stepped Out Of Their ‘Comfort Zone’
Abuse comes in many shapes and forms, in Mary Nighy’s psychological drama thriller Alice, Darling. Anna Kendrick stars as a woman trapped in an abusive gaslight relationship on a brink of a break down. They say you should step out of your safety zone every so often and challenge yourself with something a little different.… Read More Film Review – Alice, Darling (2022)
Luca Guadagnino’s cannibalistic coming of age drama Bones And All, a story of young adults looking for their place in the world. Craving not just the delights of the world but eating it’s inhabitants too. Giving ‘fingering’ a whole new meaning. Taylor Russell stars in this one along side Timothee Chalamet as our star crossed… Read More Film Review – Bones And All (2022)
Life is so unfair in James Gray’s coming of age drama Armageddon Time. The film is set in 1980 New York. The nation is on the cusp of a socio-political change, with Ronald Regan about to step into the Oval office to become the 40th president the United States. The Soviets are at war with Afghanistan… Read More Film Review – Armageddon Time (2022)
five years after ‘sexual predator’ Harvey Weinstein road to his downfall, we get She Said. The film based on that New York Times story that charts the downfall of the movie mogul. Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan play the reporters Jodie Cantor and Megan Twohey. If you know the history of the movement, you know… Read More Film Review – She Said (2022)
Humanity seems to find humour in grief and tragedy like in Martin McDonagh’s pitch black delight, The Banshees Of Inisherin. The Irish filmmaker reunites with his dynamic duo Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. The three worked together back in 2008 in the equally dark In Bruges. This time not hit men keeping a low profile… Read More Film Review: The Banshees Of Inisherin (2022)
Very few best selling novels cut the grade when it comes to book to film adaptations. Could Where The Crawdads Sing cut the grade? If we go by critical reviews this evocative story of resilience, the answer would be no. The fans beg to differ, they say yes. Today Sony Pictures Releasing give this mystery … Read More Film Review- Where The Crawdads Sing (2022)
What’s it like to be human? It’s a question Kogonada’s After Yang attempts to unearth an answer to. The spellbinding sci-fi morality drama that asks us to dive deep into our hearts. With humanity’s relationship with artificial life is put to the test. There is no hiding from it, we are all going to die… Read More Film Review – After Yang (2021)
Superman was questioned if he was a bird, was he a plane? In Ridley Scott‘s House Of Gucci is it a historical drama? 1980’s Dallas style Soap Opera cheesefest? A comedy or simply all of them? The name Gucci is synomous in the fashion world. An ego centric family who would do anything including stabbing… Read More Film Review – House Of Gucci (2021)
Here in the UK, we seem to live in a society that rewards the wealthy getting richer. They also reward for ‘punishing’ those just simply trying to exist. It doesn’t help much that the nation’s press are predominantly right wing. Who take great pleasures at demonising the unemployed, the lowly paid, to them they are… Read More Film Review – Sorry We Missed You (2019)
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