Spottiswoode: Air America (1990)
One of the more low-key buddy films of the early 90s, Air America revolves around the covert American airline presence in Southeast Asia that funnelled provisions and troops [...]
Mills: 20th Century Women (2017)
Who inhabits the present? That’s a question I often ask myself. Is it the oldest people at any one moment, who can most contextualise the present in terms of the past? Or [...]
Larrain: Neruda (2016)
Pablo Larrain’s film about Pablo Neruda is his second for 2016 after Jackie, and in many ways it functions as a kind of companion piece. Like Jackie, Neruda is just a [...]
Levine: Snatched (2017)
Snatched is Amy Schumer’s second big budget film after Trainwreck and, like Trainwreck, it’s a bit of a disappointment, although for different reasons. Whereas Trainwreck [...]
Kaurismaki: Toivon Tuolla Puolen (The Other Side of Hope) (2017)
Recently, a friend of mine arrived back in Australia from Finland and told me that Helsinki was a city that had come of age around industrial design, and a city that still [...]
Haneke: Happy End (2017)
Michael Haneke’s most recent film opens as a kind of spiritual sequel to Hidden, although, this time around, we’re presented with three very different kinds of image. [...]
Peele: Get Out (2017)
One of the most ingenious and penetrating horror films – if you can even call it a horror film – that I have seen in some time, Jordan Peele’s directorial debut [...]
Twin Peaks S02E22: “Beyond Life and Death” (10/6/91)
Less than twenty-four hours away from the return of Twin Peaks, it’s hard to know what to say about the final episode that hasn’t been said. All up, this is probably my [...]
Lynch: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
In some ways, Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch’s notorious prequel to Twin Peaks, plays as two quite distinct films: the investigation by Special Agents Chester Desmond [...]
Twin Peaks S02E21: “Miss Twin Peaks” (10/6/91)
After the incredible conclusion to “The Path to the Black Lodge,” it’d be hard for the follow-up episode, “Miss Twin Peaks,” not to be a bit of a comedown, so [...]