The Killing of a Sacred Deer is one of those films where I just didn’t *get* the title and the trailer at first, but as soon as I saw it was made by Yorgos Lanthimos, …
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer is one of those films where I just didn’t *get* the title and the trailer at first, but as soon as I saw it was made by Yorgos Lanthimos, …
Continue readingThe Guardian Brothers is a Chinese animation which is getting a Western release but has taken its time in doing so. There’s a crisis in the Chinese Spirit World – humans don’t believe in gods …
Continue readingThe Killing of a Sacred Deer is a title that didn’t grab me at first, but then I saw the cast featured Colin Farrell, and it comes from Yorgos Lanthimos, the director of the brilliant …
Continue readingThe Beguiled is a remake of Clint Eastwood’s 1971 western, directed by Don Siegel. While imprisoned in a Confederate girls’ boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women’s …
Continue readingQueen of the Desert tells the tale of the life of Gertrude Bell (Nicole Kidman) – a traveller, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the 20th …
Continue readingThe Beguiled is a remake of Clint Eastwood’s 1971 western, directed by Don Siegel. While imprisoned in a Confederate girls’ boarding school, an injured Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women’s …
Continue readingThe OSCARS 2017 will take place on Sunday February 26th and will be broadcast on Sky in the middle of the night if you’re in the UK. The nominations are as follows: Best Picture: Arrival …
Continue readingThe BAFTA 2017 Awards will take place on Sunday February 12th and will be broadcast on BBC1 that evening. The nominations are as follows and, as usual, they include a stack of films which haven’t …
Continue readingThe Family Fang seems to start off as an interesting comedy, but then soon ended up as a mediocre drama, based on this trailer, so I’m not sure what to make of it. Brother and …
Continue readingGenius is a chronicle of Max Perkins’ (Colin Firth) time as the book editor at the publishers Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law), Ernest Hemingway (Dominic West), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Guy …
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