After almost a decade of work as a director for hire, Duncan Jones makes a return to more personal projects.
Mute, which released on Netflix this week, is a neo-noir that draws on everything from Blade Runner to Total Recall. …
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REVIEW: Battle of the Sexes & The Meyerowitz Stories (LFF Days 2-3)
Battle of the Sexes
The real-life Battle of the Sexes, the 1973 tennis match between women’s world champion Billie Rae King and former men’s champion Bobby Riggs, is an event that might well have been conceived with dramatisation in mind.
To say that the film version, co-directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine), in a populist, mainstream sports biopic takes nothing away from it.…
NETFLIX HORROR DOUBLE BILL: Gerald’s Game & Cult of Chucky
Gerald’s Game
2017 may be remembered as the year we remembered how to adapt Stephen King.
We’ve even figured out how to do a quality ’90s-style Stephen King miniseries; specifically by getting rid of the sprawl.
Jessie (Carla Gugino) and Gerald Burlingame (Bruce Greenwood) take a romantic weekend away in a last-ditch attempt to recover the spark in their marriage.…