Tag Archives: Fantasy

Review in Brief: Orion and the Dark (2024)

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Charlie Kaufman’s latest exploration of existential dread is, unexpectedly, a kids’ animation from Dreamworks and director Sean Charmatz. Highly neurotic eleven-year-old Orion (Jacob Tremblay) is swept off on an adventure by the anthropomorphic personifications of night, lead by Dark (Paul … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief | Tagged Animation, Charlie Kaufman, DreamWorks, Family Film, Fantasy, Jacob Tremblay, Netflix, Orion and the Dark, Paul Walter Hauser, Sean Charmatz | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: All of Us Strangers (2023)

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Andrew Haigh’s ALL OF US STRANGERS opens with one of the most beautiful shots I have ever seen and doesn’t let up from there. Lonely writer Adam (Andrew Scott) living in a near-deserted tower block in London simultaneously begins a … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief | Tagged All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh, Andrew Scott, Drama, Fantasy, Paul Mescal, Romance | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: Beau is Afraid (2023)

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Thanks to Ari for letting us sit in on his bewildering self-therapy. BEAU IS AFRAID is best described as an epic anxiety horror. It could certainly be considered funny, but funny-peculiar. Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) is a man-child still under the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief | Tagged Beau is Afraid, Black Comedy, Fantasy, Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone | Leave a comment

The Boy and the Heron (2023) Review

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/the-boy-and-the-heron-2023-review/ SSP

Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine | Tagged Animation, Anime, Fantasy, Hayao Miyazaki, Masaki Suda, Soma Santoki, Studio Ghibli, The Boy and the Heron, World Cinema | Leave a comment

Poor Things (2023) Review

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

https://www.thefilmagazine.com/poor-things-2023-review/ SSP

Posted in Film, Film Review, The Film Magazine | Tagged Black Comedy, Emma Stone, Fantasy, Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos | Leave a comment

Review in Brief: The Five Devils (2022/23)

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

THE FIVE DEVILS (I never did work out why it’s called that) is a captivating, beautiful and very weird sort-of time-travel story. The life of the Soler family is rocked when aunt Julia (Swala Emati) comes to stay and young … Continue reading →