If all fashion designers made films as good as Nocturnal Animals, I would be very pleased. However, thankfully very few fashion designers actually think to step behind the camera. Tom Ford is one of the few exceptions (if not the only one), and while I can’t say I’m too aware of his work as a…
Author: The Postmodern Pelican
Ranking the 89th Academy Award Nominees for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
In order to judge them fairly, I have taken it upon myself to watch all the nominees for Best Picture, Best Director and the acting categories, and I have to say that this year has some incredible nominees, most of which are deserving of their nominations. I will be ranking them category by category in…
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
After having seen Hacksaw Ridge, I can’t decide if I liked or disliked, or outright hated, this film. Its a strange situation, because it truly is an average film, not because it is mediocre throughout, but because there are some moments of brilliance, and some truly terrible moments, so it all balances out and makes…
Lion (2016)
Some stories are just too touching to not share, and the story of Saroo Brierley is one of the more inspiring. It was only a matter of time before his story was brought to the screen, the result may not be the most notable or prominent film, but for what it makes up for in…
La La Land (2016)
La La Land is a masterpiece. That is all that needs to be said. There isn’t any point justifying why this is one truly extraordinary film, and perhaps the very best film of 2016. Very rarely does a pure cinematic masterpiece arrive in cinemas, and if there was ever a film that deserves the title…
The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015)
If there is an award for most bizarre documentary, the 2016 award would most certainly go to Tickled. However, I have managed to find a documentary from 2015 that is equal parts strange as it is wonderful. That film is The Babushkas of Chernobyl, one of the most delightfully weird and touching documentaries of recent…
Hell or High Water (2016)
If there is one film genre that has seemingly gone obsolete, it is the western. That isn’t to say the western as a theme has been entirely eradicated, but the iconic westerns made by John Ford and Howard Hawks, and starring the likes of John Wayne, or the brilliant spaghetti westerns that made Clint Eastwood…
Fences (2016)
Here’s the thing – I am a big fan of all the performing arts, and when it comes to the three kinds of narrative performance, there are different methods of control. In all of them, there are different components, each one vital and necessary, but there is always the one figure that is most important,…
Tickled (2016)
In his masterpiece Gravity’s Rainbow, literary icon and comical genius Thomas Pynchon wrote what is called “Proverbs for Paranoids”, and the first proverb is “you may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures” – and until now, that quote hasn’t fully resonated with much as much as it did after…
Predicting the 89th Academy Award Nominees
In less than a week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with announce the nominees for the 2017 ceremony, which will honour the best in film (or at least, the best in film in their opinion) of 2016. 2016 was a strange year, but in a very good way – there were some truly…
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