Awards Season, Reviews / 10.12.2020

Last year, it was Brad Pitt in Ad Astra. One year earlier, it was Ryan Gosling in First Man. And who could forget Matt Damon in 2015's The Martian and Matthew McConaughey in 2014's Interstellar? In 2020, it's George Clooney. Yes, we've finally reached the year's obligatory "sad man in space" movie. Alright, so Clooney actually remains completely earthbound in The Midnight Sky, but it's a space-themed film with a huge A-list star playing a miserable astronomer, so Clooney's latest directorial effort joins this club as an honorary...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 02.12.2020

We're drawing closer to the end of a year we'd all rather forget, and what better way to say farewell to the flaming garbage pile that was 2020 than with a big, glitzy dose of Broadway musical magic. Alright, so that's not going to be everyone's answer to brightening up such a dark period of history, but, for those who love their musicals loud, proud, and extra-extravagant, The Prom is everything you need right now. Unapologetically campy and infectiously joyous, The Prom wears its enormous heart on its sleeve...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 20.11.2020

In the six long years since his last feature film, Gone Girl, modern-day auteur filmmaker David Fincher has been more intently focusing on the medium of television than the big screen. Fincher helped produce and direct Netflix's masterful serial killer drama Mindhunter (which is now infuriatingly on indefinite hiatus) and dabbled in animation with Deadpool director Tim Miller on the cyberpunk anthology series Love Death + Robots. In an ironic twist of fate, it's highly likely his latest film will be seen by more people on a television...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 30.10.2020

After 10 long years, the radiant legend that is Sophia Loren is finally back on our screens. At the age of 86, Loren ably proves time hasn't diminished her star quality one bit, as she effortlessly delivers one of the year's best leading female performances. Directed and co-written (with Ugo Chiti) by her son, Edoardo Ponti, the captivating The Life Ahead stands as the perfect vehicle for Loren's long-awaited return. As a fiercely independent woman with a heart of absolute gold, Loren dazzles like only she can, reminding...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 15.10.2020

It's always a foolhardy task to offer a new adaptation of a story that already scored an Academy Award for Best Picture. The disastrous bomb that was 2016's Ben-Hur highlighted why it's a dangerous idea. Likewise with the disappointing All the King's Men in 2006 and the god-awful mess that was 2004's Around the World in 80 Days. We'll now have to wait another year to see if Steven Spielberg has somehow found a way to breath new life into ten-time Oscar winner West Side Story. 80 years after Alfred...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 10.10.2020

The coveted moniker of Disney Legend isn't a title the studio bestows lightly, but there are few animators more deserving of this honour than the icon that is Glen Keane. A veteran of Disney animation who played a key role in the studio's dazzling renaissance period of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Keane was the man responsible for designing numerous iconic characters including Ariel, Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas, to name just a few. For all his staggering achievements in animation, Keane hadn't followed many of his Disney contemporaries...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 08.10.2020

A wise man once said, “A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.” That may have been true in Middle Earth, but it doesn't quite work that way in the film industry. To see a screenwriter, director, producer, and star make her feature film debut at the ripe age of 40 is hardly a typical occurrence in the film industry, especially for a woman of colour. What an absolute delight it is to see this occur in such a dumpster...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 27.09.2020

Earlier this year, we were given the rare treat of experiencing a moment in Broadway history in our living rooms with the Disney+ release of Lin Manuel Miranda's miraculous musical Hamilton. In many ways, Joe Mantello's The Boys in the Band seeks to offer something similar. While not a live stage recording of the Tony Award-winning 2018 Broadway revival of Mart Crowley's seminal 1968 play, Mantello reassembles the entire sublime ensemble cast of openly gay actors to reprise their stage roles and deliver this divisive work to a...

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Reviews / 15.09.2020

While your brain still recovers from the exhausting and unsolvable puzzle of Tenet, Netflix steps up to the plate to deliver a chaotic, complicated Southern Gothic horror noir with so many intertwining story threads, you might initially need a corkboard and some string to understand how it all weaves together. Thankfully, unlike Christopher Nolan's nonsensical failure, The Devil All the Time becomes clearer as it travels through a grim narrative dripping with blood and shrouded by a sense of unrelenting dread right from its opening scene. With a bleak...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 08.09.2020

Where does one even begin when describing a new film from someone like writer/director Charlie Kaufman? With his penchant for pushing the boundaries of storytelling and a strikingly unique style that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality, Kaufman is a divisive auteur whose screenplays consistently defy the logic and traditions of cinema. Opinions of his work are always sharply divided, and his latest offering is sure to see a similar reaction. Over a decade after his last live-action directorial effort, Kaufman returns with a film that's likely to...

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