Named for the first law of conservation, the title of Debra Granik’s latest perfectly evokes the film’s mood of quiet sublimation.
Father and daughter Will (Ben Foster) and Tom (Thomasin McKenzie) subsist illegally out in the primeval wilds of Forest Park near Portland, Oregon in a makeshift camp perfectly concealed behind the mossy bulk of a fallen tree.…
Do you remember 2004? For me, aged 28, it’s literally half a lifetime ago.
The biggest film releases were Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Spider-Man 2, and a little movie called The Incredibles, Disney’s first foray into the then relatively uncontested arena of superhero movies.…
Rampage
An outsized force of nature is running amok in your local multiplex – and I haven’t even gotten to the giant albino gorilla.
Fresh off the massive success of Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is channelling his considerable brawn, breezy charm, and smouldering charisma into a project that, despite its roots in a 1986 arcade game, feels like a throwback to a dumber, more innocent time.…
Much As I love them, I’d very much like to call a moratorium on the use of CCR and covers thereof in film – or at least the obvious hits.
Fortunate Son. Midnight Special. Proud Mary…
When they’re not being used in a knowingly absurd context, i.e.…
With UnSane, Steven Soderbergh has created a lean, tech-savvy psychological horror for the #metoo era.
Claire Foy stars as Sawyer Valentini, a bright-eyed, damaged businesswoman who, having recently upended her life to get away from a stalker, is tricked into having herself “voluntarily” committed
She’s understandably pissed off and scared. …
For those of you who only know of Tomb Raider through the early-2000s films – in which a pneumatic Angelina Jolie dispatched baddies with a glare, a pout, and a pair of Heckler & Koch – you’re about to meet a very different Lara Croft.
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In recent years, Steven Spielberg has had his gaze focused firmly on the past.
From Abraham Lincoln and the fight for emancipation to The Washington Post battling for freedom of the press, Spielberg is working him way, statesmanlike, through American history, celebrating the better angels of our nature; like Frank Capra with a library card.…
Between his role as cosplay Joker and the kimono he wears in Blade Runner 2049, Jared Leto may be a secret Japanophile.
It’s the only way I can rationalise his involvement in The Outsider, a Netflix Original that falls firmly into the category of “they/we probably should have known better”.…
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Alex Garland is one of the relatively few directors working today who truly deserves to be called a visionary.
His latest film, Annihilation, a dreamlike adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel of the same name, is, to say the least, a smart, ambitious, multi-ethnic, female-led sci-fi.…
Lynne Ramsay’s latest is Taken for the arthouse crowd.
Based on Jonathan Ames’ novel of the same name, You Were Never Really Here stars Joaquin Phoenix as Joe, a burly, beardy hitman with a man-bun and a barely subsumed death wish.…