The class struggle is alive and well, it seems, and depicted with brilliant and explosively exuberant joie de vivre in director Bong Joon Ho’s black comedy.
“Arrival”: Movie Musings
Science Fiction films have always provided a great platform for shaping strong female leads. Perhaps, for some, it was easier to imagine the existence of independent strong women in the imaginative worlds far far away.
“In Between” (“Bar Bahar”): Film Review
There is a particular glamour to party nights in cities like Beirut or Tel Aviv – the proximity of the sea, the dark starry nights, suntanned boys and girls dancing the night away at impromptu gatherings, smoking on balconies and rooftop terraces, sometimes encountering that unexpected spark of attraction.
“Mr. Jones”: Film Review
On the last day of 1930, a young man wrote a prescient article for the Cardiff Western Mail: “Liberty, for which fighters in Britain have struggled for centuries, is now considered pre-Victorian humbug throughout the world”.
“Happy as Lazzaro”: Film Review
A Cannes 2018 favourite, Alice Rohrwacher’s film is a deliciously subtle tragi-comic fable, told with the lightest of touches.
“Ad Astra”: Movie Musings
The best film about love?
“The Touch”: Film Review
The past brings up unexpected treasures in Ingmar Bergman’s 1971 “The Touch”.
“A Hidden Life”: Film Review
Does it matter if wartime resistance is futile? A resolute stand leads to the obscure death of a man, only belatedly turned into a saint by the Church that let him down.
“Parasite”: Film Review
The class struggle is alive and well, it seems, and depicted with brilliant and explosively exuberant joie de vivre in director Bong Joon Ho’s black comedy.
“Give Me Liberty”: Film Review
The Cannes Film Festival audience at Directors’ Fortnight was euphoric – applause rolled on and on over the end credits as the frenetic energy of a mad dash of a film gradually settled.
London Film Festival 2019 Part 2 – First Weekend
So many films, and too little time – our selection for #LFF2019’s first weekend.
“The Lost City of Z”: Movie Musings
Sometimes I think I am on a boat, with the rest of the crew, floating towards the City of Z, and everything that’s happening right now in my life is just an imagination of a bored mind.
“Black ’47”: Film Review
An action-packed and hugely satisfying revenge Western sets into stark context Ireland’s relationship with Britain.