Rye Lane is a fresh, innovative romantic comedy, giving a much needed second wind to the dated genre. Rye Lane, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, and written by Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia, becomes a delightfully charming insight into a budding love set in Peckham with leads Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson, who between the pair,…… Continue reading Rye Lane
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Shazam! Fury of the Gods delivers its wrath over two hours of torture that even Sisyphus would consider too extreme a punishment to endure. Shazam! Fury of the Gods, directed by David F. Sandberg, is the sequel to the 2019 refreshing entry to the superhero genre, where Asher Angel and Zachery Levi alternate, respectively, the…… Continue reading Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania stumbles the Marvel Cinematic Universe into phase five by re-introducing Jonathan Major’s Kang the Conqueror. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, directed by Peyton Reed, is hotly anticipated as the introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe phase five’s antagonist Kang the Conqueror. Played by Jonathan Majors, Kang makes his cinematic debut…… Continue reading Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is exactly the story that audiences who have grown with the DreamWorks franchise need to hear about mortality and personal growth. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, directed by Joel Crawford is technically a sequel to the movie made a decade ago, but knowing nothing about its presence treating…… Continue reading Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Blonde
Reimagining the rise of the world’s most famous actress, Marilyn Monroe, and the deep, lifelong scars that led to her tragic downfall. In her novel Joyce Carol Oates took particular care, prefacing Blonde, her fictionalised account of the life and death of an enduring icon as just that: complete fiction. I can’t help but wonder if a…… Continue reading Blonde
Blue Jean
Blue Jean tells section 28 and homophobia with a passable melodrama. Blue Jean, directed by first-time feature filmmaker Georgia Oakley, is set in the Thatcherite era of Britain, a time of political and sociological change, when the retrospectively disgraceful Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 law was passed. Our lead, Jean (Rosy McEwen),…… Continue reading Blue Jean
The Fabelmans
The Fabelmans could have been Steven Spielberg at his strongest but in its confusion ends up fighting with itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1G2iLSzOe8 The Fabelmans, directed and written by cinematic great Steven Spielberg had all the promise of being a tremendous self-retrospective film of how his nurtured upbringing shaped the multi-Academy Award director. However, the film that has…… Continue reading The Fabelmans
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
A welcome far cry from the sex-driven comedies that have typified the genre, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is a truly delightful romp. Without ever diluting the “good stuff”, director Sophie Hyde and writer Katy Brand playfully poke into the deeper meanings behind our biological urge for a pleasurable connection with Good Luck To You, Leo…… Continue reading Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Babylon
Babylon is cinema distilled into its rawest essence, as director Damien Chazelle provides a sadistic companion piece to La La Land’s rose-tinted beauty of filmmaking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5muQK7CuFtY Babylon, directed by Damien Chazelle, with its accompanying score from Justin Horowitz, who together created the masterful Oscar-almost-winning La La Land, is everything wrong and right with cinema all…… Continue reading Babylon
Tár
Tár is as divisive as it is pretentious with its dissonance a metaphor for betrayal, revenge, and corruption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Na6gA1RehsU Cate Blanchett stars as the titular, EGOT-winning conductor Lydia Tár, in a fictional biopic about cancel culture and the perceived invulnerability of those in austerity as directed by Todd Field. With accusations surrounding her behaviour and…… Continue reading Tár