The Cannes Affair, 2018: Part Three
My last two days at the film festival were nothing but mellow (what, no wild parties in Cannes?), and have completely resigned to seeing one film per day. Which means missing out…
The Cannes Affair, 2018: Part Two
No amount of Cannes adrenaline rush could ever make me feel super enthusiastic waking up at the crack of morning to catch an 8.30 screening of a major film in…
The Cannes Affair, 2018: Part One
Love affairs can be enduring. Some are more short-lived than most. Cannes Film Festival, for me, was the one that got away. I thought I’d never be back here again.…
The Moviejerk’s Best of Cinema: 2017 Edition
Ah, what a time to be alive. Don’t you just truly, genuinely, appreciate the fact that you and I (and everyone reading this joint) are all awake and breathing right…
The Best of Cinema: 2017 Video Edition
What a hell of a year. Just in case you thought I disappeared into the Great Cosmic Limbo, here I am, still on track, treading on Earth but now living…
The Moviejerk’s Best of Cinema: 2016 Edition
Whatever the hell Martin Scorcese’s been smoking these days, I’m not having any of it. Spouting untruths like a proclaimer of gospels, he righteously preaches “Cinema is gone!”, after which millions of over-stressed…
The Best of Cinema: 2016 Supercut
The Year 2016 was a year we’d all love to hate. Alright, ‘hate’ is too strong a word and there’s certainly too much of that in our planet already. Nonetheless, we might as well eschew 2016 A.D., reduce it into a blip or a little fart in the history of our species for once again, more than any other year, humankind proved its incurable capacity for Grand Idiocy.
London Film Festival 2016: Part One
There’s nothing like an autumn season film festival that can drag me out of my hole than London Film Festival, this frenetic city’s premier twelve-day movie marathon. OK, it’s not exactly…
The Moviejerk’s Best of Cinema: 2015 Edition
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 assemble the…
The Best of Cinema: 2015 Edition Supercut
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…
The Young and Prodigious Xavier Dolan
Unless you’ve been recently binge-watching all of the hot messes involved in Hollywood’s Annual Grand Carnival of Self-Congratulatory Wankery aka the Oscars, subsequently rendering you incapable of seeing real cinematic…
The Moviejerk’s Best of Cinema 2014
No year is complete without a supervillain. And no, I’m not talking about Scott Rudin or North Korea. In this annus mirabilis in cinema, no one else has royally fucked-up…
A Teaser to the Best of Cinema 2014
It’s nearly the end of the year, and everyone from Sight & Sound to John Waters are each coming up with their own best films list. Hardly anyone has the…
Blu-ray: The Essential Jacques Tati Collection
It is exactly four decades since Jacques Tati’s final film Parade was released into public consciousness in 1974, an effort that marked the end of the renowned French comic actor…
The Ten Definitive Nicole Kidman Performances
Grace of Monaco is released this weekend, and for those in-the-know, Olivier Dahan’s take on Grace Kelly’s regimented and conflicted Mónegasque, post-Hollywood life has recently been under fire in Cannes…
Cannes Film Festival 2014: According to The Moviejerk Jury
So, the funster Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the Palme d’Or for his snoozefest Winter Sleep, the only film I’ve seen in Cannes this year where I actively engaged in a…
The Top 10 Most Depressing Films (I’ve Ever Seen)
Are you feeling under the weather? Stuck in a rut, or perhaps working a crappy job, flipping burgers just to pay for your astronomical monthly rent for a crumbling urban…
‘Ida’ gets a sublime new trailer
One of the most haunting films to play in the BFI London Film Festival last year, Pawel Pawlikowski’s sombre tale about identity, self-discovery and the burden of family history in…
Competition: Win ‘Fire in the Blood’ DVD
In celebration of the DVD release of Dylan Mohan Gray’s ferocious documentary Fire in the Blood, The Moviejerk is giving away two (2) DVD copies to our lovely, loyal readers…
The Nine New Films I’ve Seen in BFI Flare
To all unaware folks of London (or the world, for that matter), the BFI Southbank lit up momentarily over the last ten days, celebrating the best of what LGBT cinema…