This week saw the long overdue physical re-issue of David Cronenberg’s seminal 1996 film Crash via an extraordinarily lavish Arrow … Continue reading Minutiae: The Positive Approach to Disability in Cronenberg’s Crash
Director: Hong Sang-soo Stars: Kim Min-hee, Song Seon-mi, Seo Young-hwa South Korean director Hong Sang-soo often feels to me like … Continue reading Review: The Woman Who Ran
Director: George C Wolfe Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Glynn Turman On 28th August this year the world stopped at … Continue reading Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Director: Steve McQueen Stars: Kenyah Sandy, Sharlene Whyte, Naomi Ackie Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series of films comes to a bittersweet … Continue reading Review: Education
Director: Albert Serra Stars: Iliana Zabeth, Helmut Berger, Marc Susini Consisting in the main of a furtive, debauched orgy in … Continue reading Review: Liberté
The top ten Portrait of a Lady on FireNever Rarely Sometimes AlwaysEmaBeanpoleA Hidden LifeLovers RockOverseasDick Johnson is DeadRelicAn Easy Girl … Continue reading The Best of 2020
Director: Steve McQueen Stars: Sheyi Cole, Jonathan Jules, Robbie Gee One of the points I wanted to cover (but skipped … Continue reading Review: Alex Wheatle
Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis Stars: Haley Bennet, Denis O’Hare, Elizabeth Marvel Around the turn of the last century, a popular ‘exhibit’ … Continue reading Review: Swallow
Director: David Fincher Stars: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Tuppence Middleton Thanks to his episodic endeavours for Netflix – House of … Continue reading Review: Mank
Year: 2003 Director: Tsai Ming-Liang Stars: Chen Hsiang-Chyi, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Lee Kang-Sheng Cinema as a medium – and, more pointedly … Continue reading Why I Love… #122: Goodbye, Dragon Inn
The Lost Highway Hotel 