Late Night is a dreadfully derivative and perfectly pleasant experience, a film that may be composed of commonplace fluff with a few good ideas scattered here and there for good measure, but one that doesn’t necessarily leave much of an imprint, other than through being just a diversion from more serious matters. However, what Late…
Under the Sand (2000)
Marie (Charlotte Rampling) is an English teacher who goes on holiday with her intellectual husband, Jean (Bernard Cremer). While she sunbathes, he goes for a swim – and never returns. Suddenly confronted by his mysterious disappearance, Marie is thrown into a quandary, where she wonders whether he drowned by accident, committed suicide, or left her…
Joker (2019)
Joker is the rare kind of film that wasn’t supposed to work. There were so many elements that went into the making of this film that would’ve suggested that it was heading for failure – in all honesty, who of us were expecting the director of The Hangover and its contemptable sequels to succeed in…
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972)
If there is one way to describe The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (German: Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter), it would be as a film the perpetually occurs at intersections – whether being constructed at the crossroads of genre, narrative conventions or nation, this is a film that borrows heavily from a variety…
Images (1972)
Cathryn (Susannah York) is a reclusive author of children’s books who is currently struggling to finish her latest work. This is mainly the result of her declining mental state, where she starts to see and hear voices that heighten her paranoia. In an attempt to liberate herself from the angst-filled city, she convinces her husband,…
My Childhood (1972)
The experience of growing up is one that has been represented on countless occasions across all forms of artistry, with many launching themselves into the past to creatively comment on some of the intricacies of our formative years. Bill Douglas was one of the many filmmakers who set forth to explore his own childhood through…
Sleuth (1972)
Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) is on his way to a manor on the outskirts of an isolated village somewhere in the English countryside. He is there to meet a man he has never encountered, Lord Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier), a world-renowned writer of crime novels, who beckoned for Milo to pay him a visit. The…
Cabaret (1972)
It’s always a wonderful experience to watch a well-known classic for the first time. Of the innumerable cinematic blindspots I readily admit to never having watched, Cabaret was one that was burgeoning for my attention, which was resolved recently. The danger with such a classic is that expectations will always be astronomically high, and the…
The Last House on the Left (1972)
The Last House on the Left is a dark, often offensive and generally unpleasant experience. It is also one of the most audacious films of the 1970s, and a remarkable addition to the canon of highly original constructions of terror. Occurring right at the intersection between gritty exploitation and disconcerting horror, Wes Craven makes quite…
Auggie (2019)
Felix Greystone (Richard Kind) is forced into early retirement from his job at an architectural firm, which he has devoted his life to. A housebound life proves to be something he can’t adapt to, especially considering he is left to fend for himself after his wife (Susan Blackwell) gets a promotion that requires her to…
The Postmodern Pelican 