This Oscar nominated short touches on two commonly discussed topics. From a filmmaking perspective, this takes the time-loop route. Happy Death Day and sequel, Palm Springs, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and now Two Distant Strangers are some of the more recent examples of time related anomaly storytelling. And from a (not so) current […]
Tag: 2020
Run – Review
Seeing such a simple concept being expertly crafted and fundamentally resourceful with what constraints it has, is a rare thing to come by. Director Aneesh Chaganty has managed to achieve that for the second time, first being with his surprise hit Searching (2018). Yet again his scope is small, with the majority of the events […]
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula – Review
If it wasn’t for the title and a little in movie exposition, you’d have likely flown through this zombie flick having no knowledge of its connection to 2016’s Train to Busan. What perhaps you further wouldn’t realise, is that this is a threequel to director Sang-ho Yeon’s chaotic Korean zombie horror franchise. The lesser known […]
Finding the Way Back – Review
Certain films can speak to us in ways that can’t always truly be explained or understood. Gavin O’Connor and Ben Affleck’s Finding the Way Back (or The Way Back as it is known outside of the UK) is one of those movies for me. Jack Cunningham (Ben Affleck) spends his days as an ironworker and […]
Capone – Review
Last year’s Capone was met with less than stellar responses in its limited release. Yet another feature scheduled for a global movie theatre release that didn’t make it due to COVID related cancellations. Now it receives its debut streaming gig with it making its way onto Netflix. Josh Trank’s biopic of the infamous Mafioso, was […]
Pieces of a Woman – Review
They say that child birth can be a beautiful thing. But what happens if it doesn’t go according to plan? Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó, demonstrates exactly that, in this painfully poignant piece that follows a couple who are met with such fate. Vanessa Kirby’s (Mission Impossible: Fallout) Martha and Shia LaBeouf’s (Honey Boy, The Peanut […]
Spree – Review
“It’s a numbers game, and right now I’m a zero” – Kurt Kunkle It’s the modern age movie for the modern age audience. 2020’s Spree makes its appearance on Netflix and the Generation Z(ers) amongst us have plenty to get excited about. Joe Keery (Stranger Things) stars as Kurt Kunkle (AKA @Kurtsworld96), a wannabe influencer […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Review
We’re almost at curtain call on this troubled year. A year I think we’re all ready to put in the past, and focus on our futures. However, we’ll always look back on this year for the losses we’ve all had in some form or another. And one loss that the world mourned, was that of […]
The Midnight Sky – Review
A global catastrophe known as ‘the event’, has plunged Earth into an extinction level threat. The climate has changed, and with it the situations in which our very existence relies upon. In this fictional story, based on the book ‘Good Morning, Midnight’ by author Lily Brooks-Dalton, actor/director George Clooney demonstrates a future, in which we […]
Soul – Review
Much like Onwards, that was released at the beginning of this year, Pixar’s Soul may not receive the reception it most certainly deserves. As the filming industry is still very much in a dark place at the moment, Soul joins the list of mainstream releases that is given the ‘straight to streaming’ gig instead. Pixar’s […]
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