Where do I start with The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza)? This was an extraordinarily strange film and I am really not sure what to make of it. I certainly don’t know how to make sense of what this film is about or what it was trying to say, but I certainly do think…
Category: Drama
Mulholland Drive (2001)
There comes a point in the life of every cinephile where they watch Mulholland Drive for the first time. I remember seeing it quite a few years ago, when I was just a neophyte film lover. I decided to revisit it, and I will be completely honest and claim that there are two facts that…
Closet Monster (2015)
I’ve recently grown fascinated with coming-of-age stories, and I adore how some of the superior works in the genre are able to capture the naivety of youth and combine it with the themes of isolation and identity. One of the more memorable coming-of-age stories in recent years is Closet Monster, not only a wonderful story…
Boogie Nights (1997)
I honestly believe the 1990s was one of the best decades for filmmaking. So many of today’s greatest filmmakers had their peaks or debuts in this period – The Coen Brothers made a series of masterpieces, Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Richard Linklater and Wes Anderson made their audacious debuts and films such as Being John…
Sing (2016)
In 2016, there were two films released with the same title – Sing. The first (and the one that I expect the vast majority of people to be familiar with) is the animated American movie about singing animals. I haven’t seen that film, and while it doesn’t seem that bad, I’m not in much of…
Krisha (2016)
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…
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…
