Shiva Baby by Monica Castillo of rogerebert.com In Emma Seligman’s delightfully anxiety-driven comedy “Shiva Baby,” the post-funeral service rites of a Jewish family and friends are interrupted by a chaotic series of one-upmanships and unexpected guests. Based on Seligman’s short of the same name, “Shiva Baby” follows Danielle (Rachel Sennott) on her way to meet her family … Continue reading Film Review:
The Wild Pear Tree – Nuri Bilge Ceylan's delicious, humane tableaux The Turkish director’s unhurried, magnificently acted film follows a bumptious young writer who returns home to face bittersweet truths The Wild Pear Tree is a gentle, humane, beautifully made and magnificently acted movie from the Turkish film-maker and former Palme winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan: garrulous, humorous … Continue reading Movie Review:Peter Bradshaw, Guardian Review 2018
The English-language debut from the French director is an all-American delight, starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly perfect as sad, squabbling siblings. Review by Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian. 2018 Jacques Audiard is the French director who has notably absorbed American ideas into his downbeat Melvillian jazz of crime and noir. Now he has … Continue reading Netflix Nights-In: The Sisters Brothers review: Jacques Audiard saddles up for a subtle and funny western.
Reviewed by Rebecca Nicholson of The Guardian Jan 2020 The stalker thriller is tense, audacious – and makes no sense at all. How did such an infuriating series become one of the biggest things on TV? Warning: this article contains spoilers for seasons one and two of You. There are a great many infuriating things … Continue reading Netflix Nights-In. You on Netflix: the awful, sociopathic show we’re absolutely addicted to!
Matt Zoller Seitz of Vulture reviews the South Korean Zombie series ... Picture a nation already gripped by political chaos that finds itself afflicted by a plague so new that no one understands its properties yet. Its ruler is a demented senior whose underlings use his decline as camouflage for their own agendas. As citizens … Continue reading Netflix Nights-In….Kingdom Feels Like a Nightmare of Now
Mark Kermode reviews the new South Korean release that has taken the world and the Oscars by storm! The Guardian, Monday 10th Feb. In Bong Joon-ho’s flawless tragicomedy, a poor yet united family bluff their way into the lives of a wealthy Seoul household. he ideal way to experience South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho’s awards-garlanded, international … Continue reading Parasite review – a gasp-inducing masterpiece…
Roger Ebert HAROLD AND MAUDE (1972) Comedy, Drama, Romance January 1, 1972 | Death can be as funny as most things in life, I suppose, but not the way Harold and Maude go about it. They meet because they're both funeral freaks, and one day their eyes lock over a grave. They fall into … Continue reading For up and coming Valentine’s Day we celebrate Hal ‘s Ashby’s unconventional romance of sorts Harold and Maude…
Who would have thought that Jacques Audiard, the French director of slow-burn, humanistic character studies would one day take on one of the most characteristically American of genres, the Western, with his English-language debut? While worlds apart from his socially realist “Dheepan” and “Rust and Bone,” Audiard’s “The Sisters Brothers” sports a similarly closely watched, … Continue reading Tomris Laffly from RogerEbert.com reviews Jacques Audiard’s first English speaking movie venture, The Sisters Brothers…..
A review by the old reliable Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian back in October of 2017. Co-directed by Andy Nyman and The League of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson, this three-part portmanteau horror turns out a disturbing, atmospheric fable. Ghost Stories is a barnstormer of an entertainment, a fairground ride with dodgy brakes. It’s an anthology of creepy … Continue reading Ghost Stories review – Martin Freeman and Paul Whitehouse shine in dreamlike spookfest.
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