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Chris Hemsworth is breaking every rule he’s ever lived by in action-packed first trailer for Crime 101
In the twisty, stylish crime thriller Crime 101, Davis (Chris Hemsworth) is an elusive thief whose high-stakes heists have mystified police. He’s planning his biggest ever score – hoping it’ll be his last – when his path collides with Sharon (Halle Berry), a disillusioned insurance executive whom he’s forced to work with, and Orman (Barry…
Film Review: Hurry Up Tomorrow; The Weeknd self-celebrates himself in wholly misguided vanity project
Whilst I had heard all the discourse around his performance (among other things) in the much maligned HBO drama series The Idol, it was not a show I particularly wanted to seek out – even out of curiosity. So, with that, I came into Hurry Up Tomorrow free from any of that baggage, here merely…
Interview: Andrea Arnold on the painful experience of making Bird; “All my films start with some kind of image that bothers me.”
Academy Award winning director Andrea Arnold has always honed a unique voice in the landscape of cinema. From her short films Milk and the Oscar celebrated Wasp, to her distinctive take on the classic Wuthering Heights and the experimental American Honey, no project is like another, and she’s continuing such a filmic outlook with her…
Film Review: Bird fuses its harsh naturality with a sense of magical fidelity
Similar to the naturalistic, almost documentary-like aesthetic she laced her film American Honey with, writer/director Andrea Arnold approaches Bird with a realism that, for the majority of its 119 minute running time, rarely lets up to allow audiences a proper escape from the poverty-stricken housing estate setting it largely sits within. Unfolding through the eyes…
Film Review: Saltburn; Emerald Fennell’s psychosexual satire indulges in its own wickedness
The thematics of power and the consequences of privilege Emerald Fennell explored in 2020’s confronting Promising Young Woman are exacerbated in her wicked follow-up, Saltburn, which feels as if The Great Gatsby and The Talented Mr. Ripley were invited to participate in an orgy with Bret Easton Ellis and the cast of Euphoria in a…
Film Review: The Banshees of Inisherin blurs the line between absurdity and heartbreak with dark humour and masterful poise
Though he certainly didn’t lose any of his sense of comfort by travelling across the Atlantic for his last film – 2017’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – there’s a sense of grandeur in writer/director Martin McDonagh returning to his homeland for The Banshees of Inisherin, an impossibly funny and, at times, heartbreakingly bleak dramedy…
The Banshees of Inisherin is impossibly funny and heartbreakingly bleak: TIFF 2022 Review
Though he certainly didn’t lose any of his sense of comfort by travelling across the Atlantic for his last film – 2017’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – there’s a sense of grandeur in writer/director Martin McDonagh returning to his homeland for The Banshees of Inisherin, an impossibly funny and, at times, heartbreakingly bleak dramedy…
Film Review: Eternals opts for a more emotional, biblical edge as it deviates from the standard Marvel fare
After thirteen years and twenty-five films, it only makes sense that the standard formula for what makes a Marvel movie earns something of a deviation from the expected. The tightly choreographed fight sequences, the amusing quips, the CGI-heavy climactic battle…all ingredients that, to the testament of such an institution, have been recycled in a variety…