I cannot begin to tell you, dear reader, how much I actively despise the existence of this movie. Not only does its title scream of horrid selfishness ('me' com...
Divorce ain't easy. Same in real life as it is in movies, the conscious uncoupling of the human species are most likely prone to jealousy, selfishness and bitte...
Anyone au fait with the cinema of Nicolas Winding Refn must know by now that the man doesn't do safe, in the same practical way as, say for example, his fellow ...
Now that I've finally emerged from the turkey coma season and reluctantly dragged my arse back to my desktop, it's that part of the calendar again to swiftly as...
To us, cinephiles, there's rarely anything better to do at this butt-end of the year than to gaze back at the great and glorious time we've all had at the cinem...
There's rarely anything out there that feels as deeply as Carol. Todd Haynes' achingly sublime, artful evocation of love is a rarefied, nearly-extinct breed of ...
It must be hard being labelled as a “provocateur” these days. In this hardly shockable 21st century, to be a filmmaker of outrage must come with such exorbitant...
Hell hath no fury than a transgender woman scorned. In Sean Baker’s gloriously scathing, but not inhumane, revenge dramedy Tangerine, a recently unleashed jailb...
The fact that some of the greatest filmmakers of our time have essentially built careers on women going absolutely nuts on screen is worth mentioning since this...
For those expecting for the new heir to Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou's Hero in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Assassin, look elsewhere. This ...
It's easy to see When Marnie Was There will touch a lot of emotional chords, and not only because it's Studio Ghibli's final effort (in the interim, at least), ...
It's no secret that the world's wealthiest, tax-free organisation aka the Vatican preserves the sacrament of priesthood like it's the Holy Grail, sending so-cal...
There's no stopping Jia Zhangke. After his gloriously vindictive A Touch of Sin, China's foremost filmmaker pounces back into the festival scene not with blood ...
Arguably Shakespeare's most morally fucked-up play, Macbeth has enamoured some of cinema's greatest filmmakers, from Akira Kurosawa to Orson Welles and Roman Po...
We all should really know by now that, at least in Hollywood's own mental frame of reference, if you're stranded somewhere (whether on Earth's terra firma or on...
Ten-year olds would love Joe Wright's Pan. It makes for a perfect Saturday matinée show in a cinema swarmed with barely tempered kiddywinks, their saucer-wide e...
Thank goodness South Korea continues to blaze world cinema by making thoughtful, engaging and complex dramas like this. Refreshingly anti-Manichean and morally ...
You know you're courting controversy when your film opens with a fifteen-year old teenage girl enthusiastically exclaiming "I just had sex today. Holy shit!" li...
The first few beautifully drawn frames of The Tale of Princess Kaguya foretell that no other animation house on Earth could have crafted this work of art other ...
Dear Hollywood, at this point of your existence, you better pack your clutter away as George Miller has just rendered your inebriated action filmmaking obsolete...
