There are bigger movies, deeper movies and certainly more consequential movies. In the Grey doesn't seem particularly bothered. It arrives. It looks terrific. It moves.
Brand New Day remembers that sometimes the greatest superhero stories are the smallest ones, a kid swinging across a city because someone needs help. The movies finally remembered who Spider-Man is.
Christopher Nolan turns one of the oldest stories ever told into something tactile again. You don't just watch The Odyssey. You feel the weight of timber, salt and exhausted bodies.
Sometimes a film's greatest achievement isn't what happens on the screen. It's what happens in your living room the next morning.
About forty percent of Supergirl absolutely rips. It imagines a space western with two compelling young women at its centre and briefly convinces you that's exactly where superhero cinema should be heading. Then it remembers it's a superhero blockbuster.
To celebrate the release of WOLFRAM, I talk with director Warwick Thornton about his gentle sequel to SWEET COUNTRY, surfacing untold Australian history, strange rhymes with BLUEY, and facing the challenge of making something with the power and impact of poison (Sweet Country) and being compelled to create an antidote (Wolfram).
"One thing that's really interesting to me...is that one of our great cultural critics is Stephen King... the basically the first big review of Red Dragon in the I think it was in the Washington Post in 1981, and it is not only a rave, but it is completely 100 spot on. Red Dragon is like stepping into a limousine where everything works... perfectly."
In this very special bonus episode of MINHUNTER, I speak to the extremely talented journalist, author and podcaster Brian Raftery about his great new novel, HANNIBAL LECTER - A LIFE.
Cinema is life to The Secret Agent’s writer and director, Brazilian critic-turned-filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho.
All the preparation in the world will not prepare you for the surreal moment when a previously unnoticed slide door opens, and Ethan Hawke steps through.
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Nobody in this house locks anything. There's a pool, there are children, there's a killer renting across the road, and the gate swings free for 10 hours of television. The Bowdens are obsessed with their own security and incapable of practising any.