Review: Top Gun: Maverick
Director: Joseph Kosinski Stars: Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Tom Cruise Tom Cruise has always been a bit of a strange … Continue reading Review: Top Gun: Maverick
Month: May 2022
Review: Vortex
Director: Gaspar Noé Stars: Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz As highlighted by Mark Cousins in his labyrinthine The Story of … Continue reading Review: Vortex
Review: Benediction
Director: Terence Davies Stars: Jack Lowden, Matthew Tennyson, Tom Blyth The musings of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon seem to have … Continue reading Review: Benediction
Review: The Innocents (2021)
Director: Eskil Vogt Stars: Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim Childless, happily single and cresting toward … Continue reading Review: The Innocents (2021)
Review: Monstrous
Director: Chris Sivertson Stars: Christina Ricci, Colleen Camp, Santino Barnard Fleeing from an evidently abusive husband with her son Cody … Continue reading Review: Monstrous
Review: Firestarter (2022)
Director: Keith Thomas Stars: Zac Efron, Gloria Reuben, Ryan Kiera Armstrong Stephen King’s Firestarter sits somewhere unassuming toward the bottom of … Continue reading Review: Firestarter (2022)
Why I Love… #149: Wild Things
Year: 1998 Director: John McNaughton Stars: Denise Richards, Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon It’d be easy to besmirch the latter day … Continue reading Why I Love… #149: Wild Things
Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Directors: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis Scheinert and Kwan – collectively ‘Daniels’ … Continue reading Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Review: Playground
Director: Laura Wandel Stars: Maya Vanderbeque, Günter Duret, Laura Verlinden School years are immensely formative in the development of the … Continue reading Review: Playground
Review: Luzifer
Director: Peter Brunner Stars: Franz Rogowski, Susanne Jensen, Monika Hinterhuber Anyone with a even a cursory eye on European cinema … Continue reading Review: Luzifer
Review: Happening
Director: Audrey Diwan Stars: Anamaria Vartolomei, Luàna Bajrami, Fabrizio Rongione In Audrey Diwan’s essential drama Happening (a.k.a. L’Événement), it’s protagonist’s … Continue reading Review: Happening
The Lost Highway Hotel 