The Bride! – a beautifully designed Gothic ode to 1930s gangsters, monster movies and Old Hollywood glamour – should appeal to me, and in large parts it does. When they hit you with a surreal dance sequence (thankfully considerably more restrained than its uglier cousin, Joker: Folie à Deux) or illicit partying with the queers […]
To quote the late, great Catherine O’Hara, it’s my favourite season – awards. For the past 3 years I have opted to take part in the Oscar Death Race, a challenge to watch all the nominees – even the shit ones. No, being Oscar nominated does not mean you are automatically a good film. The
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Ah, children. You love ‘em. You hate ‘em. Sometimes they make you laugh, sometimes they make you scream. Do I want my own children someday? Probably. Do I want my own children after watching this film? I’m starting to question it. Mary Bronstein’s agonisingly cacophonous portrayal of the extremes of motherhood has attracted acclaim for
Yes, the title of this Brazilian Best Picture hopeful is a misnomer; The Secret Agent is not a fast-paced thriller about a renegade spy, but instead a dense, layered drama about the wide-spread mundanity of corruption in 1970s Brazil. But don’t let that put you off watching one of the year’s most unique Oscar nominees.
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS (for a 200 year old novel). Look, if you’re going to turn Wuthering Heights, a gothic masterpiece about a tragic, twisted relationship between the doomed Catherine Earnshaw and downtrodden, volatile Heathcliff, into a psychosexual thriller – at least make sure it’s giving me David Cronenberg horny and not barely scraping Bridgerton
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS NO MAJOR SPOILERS. I was lucky enough this week to attend an early screening of the new horror film Whistle from British director Corin Hardy, who appeared beforehand to introduce the film (and curse us all with its namesake prop). Hardy said he wanted to make his own American high school
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Oh, Sam Raimi, how I love thee. The Evil Dead series (particularly Evil Dead II) is one of my favourite horror franchises; his Spider-Man films still represent some of the best of the superhero genre (well, the first two); and standalone screams like 2009’s Drag Me to Hell are highly memorable.
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. It’s hard out there for those of us with wide-reaching tastes in film. I mean, I love horror, musicals, surreal films, black comedies, satires, fantasy, live-action, animation, stop-motion, you name it. But surely there’s no film out there that combines all of these things into an explosive Smörgåsbord of weirdness… right?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. There’s a war on. A bitter war – between Markiplier’s die-hard fans, and the very concept of the film critic. If you brave Reddit you will see countless posts discussing critical reactions to Iron Lung, particularly the discrepancy between the Rotten Tomatoes’ critic vs audience score (50% vs 89% at time
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. It feels like a disservice to Park Chan-wook’s singularity that so many people (bar the Academy, but what do they know?) are comparing No Other Choice to Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning masterpiece Parasite. Of course both films are fantastic, but surely we don’t have to suggest every Korean film is the same.
