One of the strangest series to grace our screens in 2016 was Search Party, a dark comedy about a group of New York hipsters whose world is turned upside down when they [...]
One of the weirdest films in Lawrence Kasdan’s already very weird filmography, I Love You To Death is a dark comedy revolving around Joey Boca, played by Kevin Kline, an [...]
One of the most enjoyably ridiculous recent Netflix releases, Santa Clarita Diet stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant as Sheila and Joel Hammond, a pair of Santa Clarita [...]
I came to Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up quite late. It had been recommended to me for years, but I somehow never got around to watching it until a couple of months ago. I’m [...]
I don’t have a great deal to say about Perfect Strangers except that it turned out to be much better than I was expecting. I saw it at Palace Cinemas Norton Street and in [...]
Martin Scorsese’s Silence may well turn out to be the defining passion project of his long and storied career. In gestation for the last twenty-five years, this adaptation [...]
Between Fifty Shades of Grey and Fifty Shades Darker, the franchise changed directors. Whereas the first film was helmed by Sam Taylor-Wood, the second and third have been [...]
I almost didn’t see Fences, Denzel Washington’s adaptation of August Wilson’s play of the same name. On a hot, sticky summer night – the temperature had been forty [...]
Over the last five to ten years there’s been a movement away from classical cinematic suspense. As a teacher who has co-ordinated units on horror cinema, I’ve noticed [...]
One of the most striking World War II dramas I have ever seen, Agnieszka Holland’s Europa Europa is an adaptation of Solomon Perel’s 1989 autobiography I Was Hitler Youth [...]