Category: Reviews

  • Hello, My Name Is Doris – Review

    In Hello, My Name Is Doris, Field proves that she’s still more than capable of elevating a film’s overall quality. Read More >

  • Eddie the Eagle – Review

    Even if Eddie the Eagle can feel romanticized, you’d have to be the biggest sourpuss in the world not to be won over by it. Read More >

  • The Smuggler – Review

    Sometimes, a film will slip through your fingers for one reason or another. And sometimes, a film won’t even get a chance to do even that; The Smuggler (AKA The Mule) is an Australian hit that hasn’t managed to find its way in cinemas on the other side of the globe, but fortunately has landed on VOD… Read More >

  • Hail, Caesar! – Review

    If you’re a fan of 1950’s cinema, you’ll likely find something to enjoy in Hail, Caesar! Read More >

  • Rams – Review

    Iceland is a deep well for art. Music and cinema has enjoyed growing naturally there, happily removed from (most) of the pulls of regular Western sensibilities, a country whose expansive national imagination comes from an open heart and a sturdy soul. Read More >

  • Anomalisa – Review

    Anomalisa is another sad, strange, darkly funny, and flat-out beautiful triumph of Charlie Kaufman’s imagination. Read More >

  • Joy – Review

    Jennifer Lawrence’s performance is just one of the many reasons why Joy is such a delightful movie. Read More >

  • The Dressmaker – Review

    Absurd and inane and wonderfully irreverent, it’s just a shame it doesn’t play up to such tropes in a more consistent manner. Read More >

  • The Lady in the Van – Review

    The Lady in the Van is a film that balances the profound with the farcical, while maintaining the whimsicality throughout. Read More >

  • Burnt – Review

    Despite having the esteemed screenwriter Steven Knight on board, where Burnt suffers most greatly, is within the hackneyed screenplay. Read More >