Cinema, like all art, has many intentions and has the power to convey any story or theme imaginable. One such theme prevalent in many films is that of current political affairs, with contemporary issues often pervading the cinematic landscape. While many of these films are very effective, writing about them can be a challenge, because…
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A Summer’s Tale (1996)
I think we can all agree that the main purpose behind cinema is to be entertaining, to be momentary periods where the audience can simply escape their day-to-day problems and just experience stories detached enough from reality to make us momentarily forget our outside woes, and leave our ordinary selves outside the cinema for just…
Where’s Poppa? (1970)
There are few people who know the comedy business better than Carl Reiner, with a career spanning from vaudeville to the Netflix era. While the majority of his most influential work was done for television, such as Your Show of Shows, Caesar’s Hour and the iconic The Dick Van Dyke Show, Reiner has put his…
The Visitor (2008)
Last weekend, I watched and reviewed Spike Lee’s 21st-century crime masterpiece, 25th Hour, a film that connected the post-tragedy New York City to the rehabilitation of a prisoner as he ponders his life over the course of his final twenty-four hours of freedom. Purely by chance, I watched a film that may be entirely different…
Lady Bird (2017)
One of the most pleasant surprises of the previous year in cinema was the unexpected moment where independent mumblecore cinema goddess Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial Lady Bird became the most acclaimed film at the time (as of writing this, that honor belongs to the delightful Paddington 2), becoming almost universally-praised, which not many saw coming…
Quiz Show (1994)
1994 was an absolutely astonishing year for cinema, and many of my favourite films of all time were released that year – Pulp Fiction, Ed Wood, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Chungking Express all made their mainstream debuts over the course of that one extraordinary year. However, in all honesty, there…
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017)
As everyone knows, I am a massive champion of the independent film industry, and I love supporting small, obscure films and hopefully helping spread the word of how great they are to a wider audience. There is an obscure franchise that many people have not heard of called Star Wars, and the latest film in…
Free Fire (2017)
One complaint always thrust upon action films is that they are too reliant on action sequences, with explosions and gun-fights, which often take the place of character development and plot progression. This very idea seemed to be the reasoning behind Free Fire, the latest from the wonderfully talented Ben Wheatley. The approach is that this…
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…
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…
