Film
DVD/Blu-ray: The Final ProgrammeTuesday, 14 March 2023
Michael Moorcock’s Jerry Cornelius is a multiversal dandy, androgynous harlequin, English assassin and sometimes Cockney, an sf adventure hero who grew through four novels into a walker in the elegiac post-Sixties wastelands. He’s an apocalyptic... Read more... |
Oscars 2023 - the favourite lives up to its titleMonday, 13 March 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once lived up to its title Sunday night at the 95th Academy Awards by managing to win nearly everything everywhere almost all at once. The fragmented, seriocomic celluloid head trip won seven of the 11 Oscars for which... Read more... |
Blu-ray: Miami BluesSunday, 12 March 2023
Junior (Alec Baldwin) peers through his airplane window at fluffy clouds with childish wonder, then a wolfish grin of opportunity. He turns to practising the signature from his latest mark’s stolen wallet, with Miami below for the taking.These... Read more... |
The Middle Man review - dark Danish-Canadian comedy about the decaying of hopeFriday, 10 March 2023
The opening shots in The Middle Man show a brooding urban landscape lit only by refinery flames at night. The streets are deserted, with a lone car scuttling across them at an intersection. It’s Nowhereville, North America, though officially it... Read more... |
Blu-ray: The Breakfast ClubTuesday, 07 March 2023
John Hughes’ most beloved cult film feels like contraband now, a bracingly harsh bulletin from Eighties teen life, full of barbed, uncensored talk between its five school detention misfits – the titular “breakfast club”.It’s nothing like Hughes’... Read more... |
Creed III review - boxing cleverMonday, 06 March 2023
This third Creed film outgrows Rocky, leaving Stallone’s bridging presence behind for a wholly renewed series. Starring again as Adonis Creed, the illegitimate son of Rocky’s late rival Apollo, Michael B. Williams’ directorial debut builds a richly... Read more... |
Blu-ray: The Cassandra CatSaturday, 04 March 2023
As films involving cats go, The Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) is up there with the best. Part fairy-tale, part political satire, Vojtěch Jasný’s 1963 fantasy, shot on location in the picturesque village of Telcis, is an offbeat, unclassifiable... Read more... |
I'm Fine (Thanks for Asking) review - quietly impressive debut filmSaturday, 04 March 2023
I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking) is an object lesson in how it was possible to make a feature on a tiny budget despite the restrictions of the pandemic lockdown. The film-makers stuck to the classical unities (time, place, action), cast themselves... Read more... |
DVD/Blu-ray: AftersunTuesday, 28 February 2023
Begin describing Aftersun to someone who’s not seen it and you’ll struggle. Charlotte Wells’ debut feature looks embarrassingly slight on paper, its 93 minutes following a young girl on a Turkish package holiday in the late 1990s with her youthful... Read more... |
What's Love Got to Do With It? review - Jemima Khan's feelgood romcomMonday, 27 February 2023
Here's a question. A romcom stars a man and woman, friends from childhood, both straight and with no romantic history. He's a Muslim and has decided to pursue an arranged marriage; she has a chaotic love life. What are the odds that they will end up... Read more... |
Joyland review - a tender tragedySaturday, 25 February 2023
Partially banned in Pakistan, Saim Sadiq’s debut uses a young man’s affair with a trans woman to reveal the sadness and brutality of the nation’s patriarchal norms. It’s also a deeply sympathetic character study written from under the country’s skin... Read more... |
Cocaine Bear review - comedy horror lacks the bare necessitiesSaturday, 25 February 2023
This is one of those films where it’s really best to stick with the trailer. The incompetence of the directing and screenwriting is easy to disguise when a crafty promo-maker has picked out the good bits from a large pile of bear scat. Cocaine... Read more... |
