I’ve always regretted not being able to watch the Lord of the Rings in the cinema. I have since caught a rerun at the Prince Charles Cinema, but I can’t imagine it captured the excitement of the audience at the time of release nor the zeitgeist that it was a part of and went on…
Category: Five Star Reviews
Marriage Story
Thank God I didn’t take family law in law school. Noah Baumbach’s latest offering after the spectacular Meyerowitz Stories (New & Selected) gives us the privilege of watching another family through the hyper-accurate Baumbach lens. Baumbach dissects a family structure with such surgical precision; articulating small moments, moods, notes, emotions and an overarching analysis of…
Nightcrawler
I finally got the chance to watch Spiderman: Far From Home this weekend and I considered writing a review on it. Then I realised it would be near impossible to write a half decent review on the film without treading on spoiler territory. Point is, if you’ve watched the other MCU films you’re going to…
La La Land
As I mentioned in my previous post, 2016 was a very important year for me with film, a year where I finally got to watch as many movies as I could (although the company line will remain- “Movies? I don’t even have time to breathe Ma!”). In a year where I got to see and…
Call Me By Your Name
Following a very important 2016 for me in terms of cinema with the near perfect La La Land, Moonlight and Arrival; 2017 was a fantastic transition to some different kind of storytelling. In a winter packed with films like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Lady Bird, The Florida Project, The Shape of Water, The Post…
Chernobyl
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.” – Valery Legasov I made the mistake of deciding to watch the first episode of Chernobyl while I was in the gym.Now I can officially say I’m well versed in the history of the Chernobyl disaster, and perhaps…
Drive
“A Real Hero”by College plays as a sort of theme song in Drive, meant to reflect our protagonist’s struggle to be someone better than himself. While I think this is a bit on the nose, it may be proof that with Drive we finally have a superhero film starring Ryan Gosling! Drive opens with our…
The Place Beyond The Pines
Throughout the Place Beyond the Pines, we get shots of the beautiful serene woods surrounding the town where our main characters live, giving the viewer an image of tranquillity when in reality, what lies ‘beyond the pines’ is a lot more grim. Ryan Gosling plays Luke Glanton, a motorcycle stuntman, who at the start of…
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