Film Review -“True Stories” – David Byrne (1986)
Synopsis – David Byrne, half-playing himself, gives you a tour of his imagined Virgil, Texas, as it readies itself for...
Owen Neve
Film Review – “The Blob” (1958, Criterion Collection)
Synopsis: A young(ish) Steven McQueen struggles to become an upright citizen of small-town Americana. He must earn the respect of...
Film Review – “HALLOWEEN” (David Gordon Green)
Synopsis: Laurie Strode (Jamie-Lee Curtis) has gone insane, and has spent the last forty years hardening herself and her home...
Film Review – “A Ghost Story” By David Lowery
There are plenty of things, Mr Kubrick, that simply cannot be born a-screen. It is no good to say, as...
Film Review – “The Big Sick” – Michael Showalter
I work unpardoning phrases in my brow, and then I see Kumail and Emily’s gentle, expectant faces, and I simply...
“Manhattan” – Woody Allen
At the very least, the most extraordinary-looking film that still trusts reality, unconditionally. (Note, first, how very much I...
“XX” Review
The Anthology is a peculiar creature; I don’t know how to tackle it. No point, surely, in separating them one...
“La La Land” – Damien Chazelle
I will never not find the prospect of a musical most off-putting. The music and the film only ever seem...
DVD Review – ‘Julieta’ – Pedro Almódovar
Julieta the film and Julieta the woman are as close as one could get to being a single entity. I...
Film Review – “Silence” – Martin Scorsese
A real hair-shirt of a movie. There are but two images in this movie – landscapes of stupendous exaltation, and...
Top 5 Freaks of the Year
The following movies are amongst the most successful dropouts, delinquents, wackadoos and one-offs from the roll-call of 2016...Welcome to the...
Film Review – “Allied” (2016)
No inflection. That is to say, no blood in its veins. No conviction, no sensation. Humourless. I lunge at its...
Film Review – “Paterson” (2016)
This movie is only a spit away from being a complete irrelevance. It ends worthlessly – but right up until...
DVD Review – Things To Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016)
Sometimes, a film behaves like a person. To cope with languid people, Antonioni and Resnais make languid films; to cope...