Director: Robin Campillo Starring: Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adele Haenel, Antoine Reinartz The Overview Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s. (Source: IMDb) The Review 120 BPM (beats per minute) is a film which feels incredibly... Continue Reading →
Director: Paddy Considine Starring: Paddy Considine, Jodie Whittaker, Paul Popplewell, Tony Pitts, Anthony Welsh The Overview Boxer Matty Burton (Considine) suffers a serious head injury during a fight. It is about the impact this has on his marriage, his life and and his family. The Review Boxing movies, for better or worse, follow a certain... Continue Reading →
Director: Wes Anderson Starring: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand The Overview Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog. (Source: IMDb) The Review It feels like every Wes Anderson film could be described as... Continue Reading →
Director: Ava DuVernay Starring: Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris Pine The Overview After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him. (Source: IMDb) The Review A film with a young... Continue Reading →
If you hadn't heard of The Room this time last year, then you almost certainly have by now! After the incredible success of The Disaster Artist (the Oscar nominated no less), the author of the book and of course star of The Room, Greg Sestero, has become a household name. Along with the man, the myth, and the... Continue Reading →
Director: Alex Garland Starring: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny, Oscar Isaac This review contains spoilers. The Overview A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition where the laws of nature don't apply. (Source: IMDb) The Review It's hard to believe that this is only Alex Garland's second directorial... Continue Reading →
Director: Greg Berlanti Starring: Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Logan Miller, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. The Overview Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends, and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.... Continue Reading →
Will I be right? Maybe. Will I be catastrophically wrong? Probably. Will there be another monumental error when announcing Best Picture? Lord, let's hope not! Here's my predictions* for the 90th Academy Awards... (*my predictions indicated in red) Writing (Original Screenplay) The Big Sick Get Out Lady Bird The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside... Continue Reading →
It's been a great year for film, so much so that ranking this year's Best Picture Oscar nominees has taken a little longer to pull together...and I'm probably going to change my mind as I go, but never mind. This doesn't necessarily reflect my predictions about what will win - that will follow in another post... Continue Reading →
Director: Darren Aronofsky Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer There are two things to expect before going into mother!. One is that you will have never seen anything like this before, and two is that you will probably never want to see anything like this again! By the end of the movie, how... Continue Reading →
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