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Merry awards season, one and all. Preparations of excitement, glee and eye-rolling apathy are well under way. We’ve had the Golden Globes and Baftas and today, we’ll have the Oscars – the most confusingly tiresome yet still engrossing film event of the year. While I’m too old to watch the Oscars (I’ve always been too … Continue reading
Hello! It’s that time again – the obligatory end of year list-athon (I’m aware this sentence in itself is also cliche). I thought this year it I’d be a bit more old school and also fair in my end of year recommendations. In previous years, I’ve listed the best seen and that found that most … Continue reading
BORN IN FLAMES (1983)/ Dir. Lizzie Borden (US) PREVENGE (2016)/ Dir. Alice Lowe (UK) Alice Lowe – how I do covet a friendship with thee. What mind must a person have who writes, directs and stars in a luridly violent revenge horror/commentary on antenatal depression, with such merciless black humour and glee? The mind of … Continue reading
LOST IN PARIS (2016/2014)/ Dir. Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon (France) MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016)/Dir. Kenneth Lonergan (US) One of the more anticipated films on my list, MANCHESTER BY THE SEA will almost certainly quietly asserts itself in many a year-end best films list. Kenneth Lonergan, a meastro of slice-of-life film and observing the ‘ordinary’, … Continue reading
It’s been a long month with many big life changes happening since this year’s BFI London Film Festival, but I couldn’t resist reporting back on what was a particularly successful festival. 60 years of bringing the best of world cinema to London masses, the Festival felt the need to go large or go home. And … Continue reading
Nothing against zombies but they’re not usually my cup of tea. If I respect your tastes then I’m up for trying new things – cuture-wise. That is how I came across the novel by Mike Carey or (M.R. Carey is his professional signature). I was sold on the existential coming-of-age tale of a young … Continue reading
Compared to other social commentary films like LA HAINE, BLACK is a love story set against the violent world of urban warfare of young second generation immigrants – the 1080s of Moroccan descent and the Black Bronx, presumably of Congolese descent. Both groups alienated by the racism and prejudice in language and skin colour of … Continue reading
(There currently isn’t an official trailer – that’s how exclusive this film is.) Saving my in-depth analysis for my favourite film that I saw at Cannes. I need to stress that there were many great films that I didn’t get to see – this was the best of what I saw. AFTER LOVE for me … Continue reading
https://youtu.be/KhvyupqNhL8 I could rightly be called a charlatan in making this admission but do know I aim to rectify this current state in the immediate future – I am loathed to admit that I have never seen a Walt Stillman film. After LOVE & FRIENDSHIP, this will soon change. Thoroughly charming in every way, … Continue reading
(Disclaimer: Please, just indulge me on this one, I’ll get back to reviewing very soon) Imagine a world – world in which board members of one of the most prestigious and glitzy film festivals in the world, collectively came to the joint decision that Oscars monologue and the in-between bits of awkward song and dance … Continue reading
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