If there was ever going to be a filmmaker to chronicle the diversity of human behaviour it’s got to be Roy Andersson. The veteran Swedish filmmaker recently finished his’ Human Trilogy‘ ( Songs From The Second Floor, You The Living and A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence) returns with another slice of… Read More Film Review – About Endlessness (2019)
That time of the month has arrived again! Last week I recorded Episode 131 of Outside Centre Film Podcast. Exploring world cinema with September choices a man in grief in Inceland, A pathetic man stuck in a Slovakian kitchen sink absurdity that wants to be a Greek Tragedy. Finally a tender love story set in… Read More Listen To Outside Centre Film Podcast Episode 131
How time flies when your having fun and over the weekend we recorded another episode of the Outside Centre Podcast. The world cinema film podcast I monthly guest critic on with host Theo Neumann. This month sees us look at Russian Horror, Kitchen Sink drama, Finnish style and a Latvian war epic … Firstly is… Read More Listen To Outside Centre Film Podcast Episode 129
Corneliu Porumboiu is a big player in the Romanian New Wave Cinema with Police, Adjective (2009) his most well known creation. His films are not known for their commercial friendliness, more deadpan, realism. Eleven years on Porumboiu’s The Whistlers is released and it’s his most accessible film to date. A stylish noir inspired playful thriller.… Read More Film Review – The Whistlers (2019)
Japanese Filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda is what you would call an expert at painting the portrait of family life, intimate even social commentary much like the way Bong Joon-Ho does it. For Kore-eda’s latest film it’s another first for him, his first Non-Japanese language film, The Truth (La vérité). The family dynamics are explored through a… Read More Film Review – The Truth (La vérité , 2019)
Joe Begos is one of the filmmakers who proudly wears his influences on his sleeve. His couple of films (Almost Human, The Mind’s Eye) where like love letters to the genre films he grew up with. Inspired by the likes of David Cronenberg‘s Scanners, First Blood, Death Wish, even Brian DePalma films.Critically the response for… Read More Film Review – Bliss (2019)
Neasa Hardiman‘s eco-horror chiller Sea Fever is the directorial debut feature for Bafta wining writer/director, who brought us the likes of Marvel’s Jessica Jones and Inhumans. A gripping creature feature terrifyingly resonates with the battle humanity finds itself in with a certain pandemic. Starring Hermione Corfield as Siobhan , a marine biology student. When we… Read More Film Review – Sea Fever (2019)
‘Never judge a book by it’s cover’, it’s a saying you can use in many situations including describing films like Kleber Mendoca Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘ Bacurau. A film you may think you about, but you really don’t. All about wealthy inequality, class struggle, dripping in blood-lust and Udo Kier! More and more we’re seeing… Read More Film Review – Bacurau (2019)
Suicide remains a very sensitive and controversial topic, even more when it’s assisted suicide. Religion plays a big part in many peoples lives and even the mere mention of the word can cause problems. In Jonas Alexander Arnby‘s Suicide Tourist tip toes into assisted suicide as tourism! With quality of life diminishing for many people… Read More Film Review – Suicide Tourist (2019)
‘Smile be happy‘, you will be if your the CEO of Warner Bros Pictures. Todd Phillips Joker may not be your ‘average comic book movie’. Nor does it have to be or need CGI or spandex characters to deliver. As I write this review, the film has just picked up two Oscars…Best Actor, Best Score.… Read More Film Review – Joker (2019)
