Movies
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Sense and Sensibility review – a wildly beautiful…
It’s impossible to talk about the new Sense and Sensibility without talking about the old one. Ang Lee’s 1995 adaptation,…
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Hope review – a rip-snorting creature feature
For all of the rip-roaring set pieces in Na Hong-jin’s creature feature Hope, there’s a scene at the halfway point that…
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Remake review – a remarkable tribute
“We can’t go backwards, Dad.” A young Adrian McElwee says this to his father, filmmaker Ross McElwee, while they’re catching…
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Resident Evil review – an absolute blast
As a considerable fan of the Resident Evil series of survival horror video games, I had the constant image of the famous…
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Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo – first-look review
All lieutenants are bad, to paraphrase a famous axiom, and that includes officers on every police force, everywhere – at least,…
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom review…
Fans of the 2005 feature length Wallace and Gromit outing, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, may experience pangs of déjà vu…
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The Debut – first-look review
In the opening chapter of ‘Revolutionary Road’, Richard Yates’ classic 1962 novel of postwar suburban discontent, the young parents of a Connecticut…
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The Last Photograph – first-look review
The titular last photograph in Zack Snyder’s morally vile, intellectually void, badly made and interminably dull The Last Photograph is a nude. Ethan…
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Widow’s Bay, Furious, and Sterling Point: How TV…
Variations of the phrase “10-hour movie” are synonymous with creators and actors seeking to prove that their project has more…
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Barrio Triste review – a haunting requiem for the…
The sensation of the fabric of the everyday world being ripped apart to afford a glimpse of something shocking lying beneath…
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