By Anne Brodie Five-time Oscar winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, The Godfather and more superb films cemented him as a great American filmmaker. But the shine was dulled in 2024 with the limited release of his fantasy epic Megalopolis set in modern-day New York standing in …
From the Italian Alps to a Magnificent Garden to Beirut – Men Take Us Places This Week.
By Anne Brodie Dir. Felix Van Groeningen's adaptation of Paolo Cognetti's novel The Eight Mountains will rip your heart out. Told simply, with the Italian Alps a looming, breathtaking presence, follows a friendship between two men over forty years. Pietro lives in a Turin apartment block and …
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, This Week in Films is a Wild Ride.
By Anne Brodie As awards season heats up, we think of New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog on Netflix. Benedict Cumberbatch's sociopathic rancher Phil launches a campaign of terror against his brother's new bride (real-life couple Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst) and her son …
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Nothing’s Off the Table This Week – Blockbusters, Spies, God, Ted Lasso and The Rock as Appetisers.
Potential blockbuster Jungle Cruise is fired by the scrappy relationship between Frank and Lily (Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt), an ancient mystery, time travel, a loveable jaguar and a snapshot parade of Amazonian culture and history, dating back to the arrival of Spain's Conquistadors. There's a …
DJT COVID Fail, Bong Joon-Ho’s Updated Classic, Du Maurier’s Rebecca Redux and Moving New Pandemic Anthology Series.
Armie Hammer and Lily James in Rebecca By Anne Brodie Totally Under Control one of the year’s most powerful documentaries shot in secret for five months, puts the Trump response to the COVID crisis under the microscope. Day by day month by month the case is built - an indisputable …