Ai Weiwei’s refugee documentary Human Flow is one of the most important films of the year. The Japanese artist, filmmaker and humanitarian has created a visual masterpiece following some of the 65 million human beings believed to be wandering the earth at this moment and refugee encampments in 23 …
Welfare Childhood, Remembering Watergate, the Psycho Shower Scene Dissected and Are You Ready for a New Dynasty? Be Honest.
Sean Baker’s joyous, exasperating and provocative film The Florida Project takes us through a few days in the life of a welfare motel just outside the gates of Disneyworld. Privileged children inside the park and children on the fringes of society aren’t so dissimilar, they share endless curious, …
Bladerunner 2049 May Slowly Blow Your Mind, Harry Dean Stanton’s Career Defining Final Lead, Artists in the Rye and Tonnes More
Bladerunner 2049, directed by Canada’s own Denis Villeneuve is a masterful space noir, audacious and sophisticated and it looks spectacular – the thinking person’s space sci-fi, prone to introspection and anxiety. It’s set in a complete universe of unforgettable bleak vastness. Unlike most space …
Harry Dean Stanton’s Role of a Lifetime in Lucky – Our Fabulously Entertaining Conversation with Director John Carroll Lynch
Harry Dean Stanton, one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood with an incredible 199 credits to his name, died last month at the age of 91. But he didn’t leave without making the biggest splash of his career in a role inspired by him and written for him. He is Lucky in the film of the same …
Historical Exoticism, Cruise Again, Even Donkeys, Plus Fall Premieres to Die For
Victoria and Abdul is the second film in as many months to look at the true story of Queen Victoria and her BFF Abdul Karim and how he became her “man”, starring Dame Judi Dench and Ali Fazal. She’s 81 and her loving dependence on this twenty-something raises eyebrows across the land but she cares …