Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited and costly epic The Irishman, based on the life of mobster Frank Sheeran reunites dozens of stars and supporting cast from Scorsese films over the past forty years. As ever, Scorsese puts us on the razor’s edge. It's brilliantly cinematic, star-studded and features …
Roland Emmerich talks ‘Midway’
Roland Emmerich’s love of action and adventure in original stories is clear in his body of work. The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Godzilla (1998) and Independence Day (1996) point to a finely-honed sense of the dark and dangerous. Emmerich goes down a new path with Midway, the fact-based story of one …
It’s a Fem-tastic Week on the Screens as We Present Some of Cinema’s Bravest Women – Plus Our Beloved Margaret Atwood! Also, Talking Synonyms, Pilgrim Horror and Jenn and Reece Navigating Life in the Fraught World of Morning News. Ker-pow!
Tim Miller’s Terminator: Dark Fate the direct sequel to 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, reunites Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a real kick for the T2’s many fans. Skynet, now known as Legion has sent a new superpowered Terminator (Gabriel Luna) from the future to kill Dani Ramos …
Two Salty Dogs Get the Eggers Treatment, Antonio Banderas Awards-Bait Showcase Pain and Glory, Seinfeld and The Bronx Connection, What Happens When You Allow Women to Drive in 2019? Nothing But Good. So Happy Agatha Raisin’s Back, Netflix’ Star-Studded New Food Series, and Twenty-Five Years of the Best in Indie Film
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are well-matched in the curiously eccentric and utterly mesmerising The Lighthouse. Robert Eggers the genius behind the superlative supernatural drama The Witch puts the men in a lonely lighthouse off Nova Scotia standing in for New England, takes away their food …
The Impossible Brilliance of Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, Portrait of a Thirty-Year Struggle for Justice in a High-Profile Church Child Abuse Case, Greener Grass, a Deeply Zany Suburban Satire That’s Nothing but Awesome, Helen Mirren Tackles Catherine the Great Two Ways, a Worthy UK Noir and the 20th imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Bong Joon-Ho’s nearly perfect, nerve-rattling comedy thriller Parasite is a shock to the system. It’s outrageous, comic, deadly serious and genre-bending, precise, poetic and mathematical, symmetrical in its construction, and deeply satisfying. It won this year’s Palme d'Or at Cannes, it's South …