April 2022 streaming round-up
Many years ago, during my BFI film journalism course, Nick James, the former editor of Sight & Sound told my class that it was impossible to watch every film released and the sooner we realised...
Category: Film and movies
Review: Red Rocket
If God loves a trier then He must fucking worship Mikey ‘Saber’ Davies in Sean Baker’s latest movie Red Rocket. He’s a handsome, charming, reprehensible douchebag, a spray-and-pray asshole...
Review: Licorice Pizza
Much like Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie, Licorice Pizza is a film for all six senses. There is no living director preternaturally gifted at evoking a time or place we have...
A Portrait of the Artist through an Audiotape: The Capote Tapes and Billie
Nearly a quarter century ago, legendary journo and The Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton published “Truman Capote: In which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall...
Celebrating Diverse Voices at the 2021 SCAD Savannah Film Festival
For me the 2021 SCAD Savannah Film Festival, held both online and in person (masks and vaccine mandates strictly enforced) this past October in lovely Savannah, Georgia, was undoubtedly one of the...
Review: Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Secretly resurrected between the monster success of Spider-Man No Way Home and awards bait like Belfast and Power of the Dog, the latest entry into the billion-dollar franchise, Resident Evil has...
What I learned from watching Listening to Kenny G
Among the issues splitting Americans into tribal camps, perhaps only abortion and guns are more divisive than Kenny G. (Or maybe not. My left-leaning family members are pretty much in agreement on...
The problem with actors
Eddie Redmayne recently said that he, a cis man, playing the part of trans woman Lili Elbe in the biopic of her life The Danish Girl, was ‘a mistake’. Well, of course. The casting garnered a lot...
Review: House of Gucci
Sometimes you must hold your hands up and just give thanks for A-List stars strutting about in high fashion and hanging on for dear life to their Italian accents before they fly off and voice a Super...
Dune: “the sheer audacity of megalomaniac filmmaking”
Hundreds of years from now you can imagine Hollywood swallowed by gargantuan sands, forgotten by history, streamed into oblivion. The oppressive rays of the sun blast heatwaves that shimmer and...