Following rave reviews for his performance in Quentin Tarantino’s putative penultimate picture Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood, the veteran actor returns to screens once again this year to star in James Gray’s ‘Ad Astra’.… Read More ‘Ad Astra’: a voyage to one’s own self
The film in fact feels more like a reenactment of the original rather than a sequel to it, successfully maintaining the charm of the first but failing to properly bridge the gaps between the stories.… Read More ‘Mary Poppins Returns’: Emily Blunt charms in reimagined Disney classic
Perhaps other superhero films started the upward movement of superhero films in critics’ circles over the past few years and this year in particular, but I, for one, will end 2018 remembering our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man.… Read More ‘Into the Spider-Verse’: a game-changing addition to the Spider-Man franchise
For over a decade now, Steven Spielberg’s cinema has taken a turn for the more historical, with releases such as War Horse, Lincoln, and The Post — all of which are solid movies, but ones that are safer than previous, more ground-breaking work from the director (think: Jaws, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Jurassic Park). And… Read More ‘Ready Player One’: a celebration of Steven Spielberg’s pop culture
Set amid rising tensions with the Russians in the 1960s, Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water follows a relationship that buds between Elisa Esposito, a mute janitor at an American Research facility, and an amphibious creature held in captivity by the facility’s head, Richard Strickland (Michael Shannon). Risking their lives, Elisa and her friends… Read More ‘The Shape of Water’: on love that roars in silence
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