Everyone knows that I adore independent cinema – I am a notoriously vocal champion for independent filmmakers, and I will supporting indie cinema until the very end. Without the daring vision of independent filmmakers, the producers that financed their films and the audiences who watched and loved their films, we wouldn’t have most of the…
Category: Drama
Christine (2016)
I am someone who relishes his knowledge of controversial events in twentieth-century history, and one event that many have heard of, but one that remains shrouded in mystery, is the story of Christine Chubbuck. Her story is one of the most intriguing but elusively mysterious stories, and while it isn’t entirely mysterious in the sense…
Valley of Love (2016)
Isabelle Huppert is the greatest actress in the world – I am contractually obligated by the Gods of Good Taste to mention that at every opportunity. There is simply not any way to deny that Isabelle Huppert is beyond brilliant in everything she does, from the beginnings of her career in the early 1970s, where…
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
I’ll start out by saying this – I hated I, Daniel Blake. That isn’t to say that it is a bad movie. It is actually a brilliant movie and one of the best of the year, and I adored it. But I hated it because it isn’t fair that a film this sad exists. Just…
The Salesman (2017)
I try and avoid talking about politics here, because sometimes I feel politics just doesn’t have much of a place in cinema, which is often supposed to be escapism, and not somewhere for political discourse, but I just say need to say something – the recent travel ban on the USA that is keeping the…
Loving (2016)
2016 hasn’t been the best year for biographical films it seems, because quite a few have ranged from being mediocre to only good. With the exception of Jackie, most of the films based on true stories this year have been overshadowed by narrative films featuring fictional stories. I know this is a broad generalization, because…
Denial (2016)
Some films just fly under the radar, and despite having great casts and interesting stories, they just aren’t given the notice they deserve. One such film is Denial, a true story that happens to be one of the most fascinating I’ve seen in a while, and it bothers me that it hasn’t received the attention…
Paterson (2016)
For every cinephile, there is that one filmmaker than made you absolutely fall in love with cinema. For many, it was the likes of Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick, and while I respect these men (and utterly adore Kubrick), there was one other filmmaker that actually shook me into loving him films unconditionally,…
Jackie (2016)
A biopic like Jackie comes around very rarely – an intimate, honest and sometimes brutal exploration of a much-loved public figure does not get more brilliant than this, and helmed by the wickedly talented Pablo Larraín, Jackie is one of the year’s most incredible films, and it proves to be a great addition to the…
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…
The Postmodern Pelican 