I could mince words, give a long-winded and elaborate opening to make a very simple point, but I feel that would just a disservice, so I will come right out and say it – Run Lola Run (Lola rennt) is one of the best films I have ever seen, and while I don’t normally find…
Author: The Postmodern Pelican
Maggie’s Plan (2016)
Has there been an actress in recent years as divisive as Greta Gerwig? Many people will not know who I am referring to, mainly because she has almost exclusively stuck to independent comedies. She is certainly an acquired taste, and while many people think she is the very definition of why independent cinema is becoming…
Suicide Squad (2016)
I am going to try and remain as civil and professional as I can here – in the end, to make any sort of film is difficult, and to produce something that is seen by even a dozen people in a monumental achievement, and everyone that works on a film should be proud that they…
Queen of Earth (2015)
From the very first moment in Queen of Earth, you are instantly captivated. It begins in a very unconventional manner – Catherine (Elisabeth Moss) sits, an emotional wreck, screaming and weeping at her boyfriend who is about to leave her. We are not given any context or explanation, but the camera stays on her as…
A Hologram for the King (2016)
I am not exactly sure why I loved A Hologram for the King – but one thing is for sure, it was a fantastic film, and one I wasn’t expecting to enjoy as much as I did. Considering what an utter disappointment the similarly-themed Whiskey Tango Foxtrot was, I was hesitant about the entire “American…
Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
I may not be the biggest superhero aficionado, but I do consider myself someone who is well-informed on graphic novels as a whole, and despite disliking superhero comic books immensely (a few are great, but most of them are just meandering and lack a lot of substance), one that I did adore was The Killing…
Shallow Grave (1994)
I’m not entirely sure what to think of Danny Boyle’s debut film Shallow Grave. It just so happens that this came out just a year after arguably my favorite film of all time, Naked, which shared much with Shallow Grave in its bleak and often terrifying look at society in the United Kingdom in the…
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Cinema is meant to tell stories, and very often those stories are rather far-fetched or fantastical and are not rooted in reality. It is thus the responsibility of independent cinema to tell the stories that mainstream cinema refuses to. Independent films show a different side to society very often and often venture into taboo territories….
Dope (2015)
One thing that you learn when you’re a cinephile is that masterpieces are not always found where we expect them to be found, and very often we are taken by surprise, because something about a film doesn’t strike one as being particularly brilliant, but hidden in the often unassuming exterior, there lurks something extraordinary. Dope…
Elvis & Nixon (2016)
There have been some bizarre films made, and sometimes some truly peculiar real-life stories are translated into films. Elvis & Nixon is one of the strangest concepts of a film I’ve ever seen, mainly because the source material is a photograph – but not just any photograph, the world-famous photograph of the fateful meeting between…
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