Coinciding with the UK release of Robert Eggers’ second feature film, The Lighthouse, George Nash lets rip on why cinema’s most dismissed trope, the fart gag, deserves more love… On a small, remote island, two gruff-looking figures, as if frozen in time, stand hauntingly at the door of a rickety wooden shack staring out silently […]
Celebrating the Most Memorable On-Screen Friendships in 2019 Movies
As we each begin to take stock of 2019 and count our blessings over the festive period, George Nash takes time to celebrate the great movie friendships that have graced our cinema screens over the past twelve months… With the festivities sweeping us up on a wave of shameless consumer indulgence, seasonal knitwear and figuring […]
The Green Mile: 20 years on, Frank Darabont’s haunting tale of reflection still hits hard
With it celebrating a landmark anniversary this month, George Nash takes a look at how The Green Mile’s tale of reflection and guilt still packs a punch, two decades on… The year 1999 marked the end of the world. At least, that’s what people would have you believe as the clocks ticked ominously down towards […]
Gremlins at 35: The timely return of Joe Dante’s controversial creatures
With Gremlins returning to UK cinemas this week, George Nash takes a look at how its satire remains timely, over three decades on… Thirty-five years on from its initial release, few films have come to epitomise the notion of not judging a book by its cover quite like Joe Dante’s iconic ’80s cult creature comedy, […]
Movie Review – Knives Out (2019)
Knives Out, 2019. Written and directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Jaeden Martell, Katherine Langford, Lakeith Stanfield, Christopher Plummer. SYNOPSIS: When a wealthy crime author is found dead the morning after his birthday party, a debonair detective is sent in […]
Movie Review – Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life (2018)
Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life, 2018. Directed by Tomer Heymann. SYNOPSIS: A filmmaker captures the highs and lows of a world-renowned gay porn star. Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life, the latest documentary feature from Israeli filmmaker Tomer Heymann, starts and ends with its titular subject on a stage. Illuminated by sharp, colourful lighting, his every […]
Movie Review – Blue Story (2019)
Blue Story, 2019. Written and directed by Andrew Onwubolu (as Rapman). Starring Stephen Odubola, Micheal Ward, Karla-Simone Spence, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Khali Best, Kadeem Ramsay, Junior Afolabi Salokun, Rohan Nedd. SYNOPSIS: Two school friends from different boroughs become bitter rivals in a brutal London gangland war. It’s been over a decade since the release of Kidulthood: […]
Movie Review — The Lodge (2019)
The Lodge, 2019. Directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz. Starring Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage, Alicia Silverstone, Danny Keough. SYNOPSIS: At a remote holiday home, a stepmother to-be gets snowed in with her fiancé’s two children. A relationship that begins as more than a little frosty, eventually starts to thaw. But, […]
Movie Review — On a Magical Night (2019)
On a Magical Night, 2019. Directed by Christophe Honoré. Starring Chiara Mastroianni, Benjamin Biolay, Vincent Lacoste, Camille Cottin. SYNOPSIS: After ending her latest casual fling with an attractive young student, a University lecturer reveals her long history of affairs to her husband of twenty years. Leaving him devastated, she checks into a hotel room across […]
Movie Review – Rewind (2019)
Rewind, 2019. Directed by Sasha Neulinger. SYNOPSIS: A debut filmmaker recounts his childhood trauma that exposed a dark family secret. As much as it is a documentary of the most hard-hitting variety, Rewind is an exercise in extreme courage. For first-time filmmaker Sasha Neulinger, retracing the steps of a childhood marred by years of harrowing […]
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