Category Archives: Film
Saw X (2023) Review
‘Steamboat Willie’ at 95 – Review
Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune: Cinema’s Greatest Collaborations
Review in Brief: Oppenheimer (2023)
Of all Nolan’s films, OPPENHEIMER is the sexy one?! A 3 hour, talky, philosophical character drama isn’t most people’s idea of a must-see crowd-pleaser, but it’s making waves. The time taken and the deliberate pacing, paired with stylistic signifiers of … Continue reading
Review in Brief: Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
As impressive as the bike jump off a cliff is, that’s only the appetiser in a particularly audacious action finale. In the particularly relevant, perhaps penultimate Mission: Impossible, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team battle an AI that … Continue reading
Peter Weir Films Ranked
‘Blade’ at 25 – Review
Review in Brief: Return to Seoul (2022/23)
This year has seen two very different films exploring different sides of the South Korean adoption industry, first Kore-ada’s BROKER and now RETURN TO SEOUL. Davy Chou’s film throws up questions of mismatched culture and heritage as the Korean-born, French-raised … Continue reading