I will be the first to admit that I don’t trust anyone that says they don’t like Roald Dahl. The man is perhaps the greatest storyteller of all time, and his books shaped the childhoods of millions of people worldwide, yours truly included. Dahl was an absolute master at writing stories that would live on…
Keanu (2016)
I’ve had a motto all my life – a film is made exponentially better by the presence of a cat or a dog in the film. I’ve seen some animals give better performances than their human co-stars. Now imagine my delight when I discovered the existence of Keanu, a film that is centered around a…
The Nice Guys (2016)
There are many people that feel that they are born into the wrong generation – and I count myself as someone who often feels misplaced within the 21st century. I often imagine myself enjoying the idiosyncratic nature of previous decades, and one that I have always felt I have a connection to is the 1970s….
Le Havre (2011)
The most difficult part of my European cinema project has not been actually tracking down some of these films, but rather choosing which films to actually watch. Some countries have such diverse and interesting cinematic histories, and to just choose one film to represent that country is entirely impossible (which is why I am not…
Eddie the Eagle (2016)
To be perfectly clear, I am not a fan of sports movies at all. I find them often boring, clichéd and utterly dull. However, there have been a few sports-themed films that have actually been absolutely brilliant and proven to be thoroughly entertaining, from beginning to end. The rare sports film that is actually brilliant…
Equals (2016)
There have been so many films made about the future, and what society will look like, and they start to become very homogeneous and interchangeable. Humanity has a fixation with speculating about our future, and somehow, all films set in the future are at one of two extremes – either they show a completely destroyed,…
Whisky Tango Foxtrot (2016)
First off, let me get something off my chest – the title of this film is absolutely horrible. Now I understand where it comes from – “Whisky Tango Foxtrot” is military slang for the expression “WTF” – but can we just note that they actually chose to use that as the title of a film…
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
There is nothing quite like a good social satire that presents a scathing and biting view of an entire group of people. Luis Buñuel was a filmmaker who never quite held back on anything when it came to making his films, and in one of his last films (he would go on to make only…
What We Did on Our Holiday (2015)
I love a good British comedy, and while my tastes do tend to go more towards the absurd (perhaps the fact that I was exposed to Monty Python’s Flying Circus very early on shows that), I do adore a straightforward, old-fashioned family comedy, and one of the most adorable and endearing little films of recent…
Demolition (2016)
Another film that we had to wait far too long for was Demolition, which was made in 2015, but was pushed to this year for some reason. It is a story that I was absolutely fascinated with, even though I barely knew anything about it other than the basic storyline. Somehow, everything just seemed to…
The Postmodern Pelican 