Ruben Östlund’s dark comedy The Square won Cannes’ Palme d’Or award this year and is Sweden’s Best Foreign Language Picture entry. It inspired heated conversation over its audacity and jaundiced view of humanity and its humour. It follows a successful Swedish art gallery curator who lets a ball drop …
The Best Week at the Movies in Ages! Thor! Deer! Ape Men! Nuns! and Tonnes More!
Thor: Ragnarok People are pretty divided on this but I thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks mostly to the warm, funny and engaging Chris Hemsworth as Thor. I can’t tell you how incredibly fabulous the celebrity cameos are, but just know those alone are worth it. Hollywood has a great sense of humour amidst …
Four Times Julianne Moore in the Same Weekend; Innocents Take Manhattan, Catfishing in Canada and Edgar Allen Poe – Victim of Fake News!
George Clooney directs Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac, a real gathering of acting titans, with a script co-written by Joel and Ethan Cohen, Grant Heslov and Clooney and the result is the dark suburban comedy Suburbicon. Vaguely echoing Moore and Todd’s dark dream, Far From Heaven with …
Looking at the World, Climate Change, Health, the Ocean and As Usual, Murder, Mayhem and Merriment.
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, …