18 February 2020
With the Academy Awards behind us, cinematic slump season is upon us. Rather than review one of the B-reel releases specially reserved for the week after many who’s whos stop watching, let’s amble through
4 February 2020
Weathering with You is director Makoto Shinkai’s follow up to the 2016 smash hit Your Name, to date the highest grossing anime film in history. With expectations understandably (and probably unreasonably) high, this feature seemed
23 January 2020
The 10-part Netflix drama The Messiah centres on a beguiling religious figure in the contemporary Middle East who claims to speak for God and appears to work miracles. With the action alternating between the
6 January 2020
Why not start off this new calendar year with a hidden gem from last year? As far as I could see, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, now available on DVD and streaming services,never
16 December 2019
It’s that time of year again. Not only to celebrate Christmas, but to drag out and start grinding again those old battleaxes about its true meaning. Should Christians say “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays”?
9 December 2019
The Two Popes is a film that’s difficult to discuss with equanimity because it sticks a finger right into the centre of wounds that divide many Christians. Juxtaposing contrastive approaches to certain high-profile problems that
20 November 2019
Broody, restrained, and a verbally-attentive kind of beautiful, this adaptation of Henry V wraps up Shakespeare’s plot in an aesthetic blend of Braveheart and The Crown.
4 November 2019
Think for a second about a world in which the truth is utterly irrelevant. If somebody wants something another person has, he or she merely makes the requisite noises, adopts the necessary postures. Little
22 October 2019
Somehow simultaneously light-hearted, heavy-handed, and sporadically obscene, The Laundromat promises a kind of ironic and worldly-wise lesson in the basic principles of international money laundering. What it delivers, however, is of such passing interest that,
7 October 2019
It is difficult to decide which of two seemingly opposite things to say first: that this is a very good, perhaps even great, film. Or that there is very little commendable in what it depicts.