The title cards of Foe indicate we will soon live in a world where fresh water and habitable land are rare commodities. According to Lion director Garth Davis, his latest drama is set in the near future when climate change forces humans out of planet Earth due to their own destruction of it. The premise …
The director of Saltburn, Emerald Fennell, does not disappoint in her promise to win an Oscar – at the same time shredding apart the upper class. Employing social satire as a weapon to counter old-fashioned practices and insular attitudes, she takes us through the title estate where we see that possession is everything. It’s a …
DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda movies stand out among other franchise successes in the same genre. In any case, underestimate Po and the Kung Fu Panda films at your own risk, with this, we are reminded that it is impossible to downplay anything connected to the series. The truth is, weighty animation is possible which …
It is easy to see how Ricky Stanicky’s concept is simple – a group of three friends who pay an actor to pretend to be a fictitious friend that they have been using for years as their generic alibi in order not to get into trouble – could potentially make for an amazing comedy. This …
Hat-tip: The tepid film that is first glaringly like an erotic drama, filled with a finance power couple who secretly got engaged. But when it comes to its sense of direction, it becomes a thrill-packed world where egos are shattered and power relations are unmanageable. Chloe Domont’s debut as a writer-director sometimes buckles under the …
There’s plenty to like about men. The tall ones are fantastic for getting stuff down from high shelves. Some of them are thoughtful and smell great. Martin Scorsese seems very nice. But watching The Royal Hotel, it’s hard not to want to gather all the women on the planet and hatch a plan to colonize …
Jeff Nichols is a director who has been working on the idea of a movie about America’s biker culture for so many years now, and he once shared this with his close friend, actor Michael Shannon, in a Memphis bar. “Michael was next to me and said ‘You’ve been talking about that idea over and …
There are many ways movie concepts can be generated: A novel, a dream, a family anecdote, or a historic battle. Tusk by Kevin Smith for instance started as a podcast joke. Although not the first major motion picture based on a Twitter thread (which will be 2020’s Zola), Dear David is the first scary movie …
Teenage life can be a drag wherever you are. But compose a special concerto for the harassed teenagers of Dark Harvest. In an unnamed, slumbering Midwestern village in the early sixties, the boys have more to think about than just hormones and homework. They also have to endure the yearly process of reducing their numbers: …
At the very beginning of The Beast, an odd time-jumping dystopic half-drama/ half-satire by Bertrand Bonnello that takes its cue from many other things including but not limited to a couple’s perpetually disastrous relationship, Léa Seydoux is instructed to scream. An actress shooting a movie in the mid-2010s on set and on green screen using …
