One Mississippi: Season 1 (2016)
One of the most difficult things to do, presumably, as a queer person, is to confront inequality in the face of death. Of course, death is the great leveller, but the [...]
Loach: I, Daniel Blake (2016)
An incredible protest film from a radical veteran, I, Daniel Blake is one of the starkest and most uncompromising entries in Ken Loach’s body of work, and yet one of the [...]
Search Party: Season 1 (2016)
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 [...]
Kasdan: I Love You To Death (1990)
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 [...]
Santa Clarita Diet: Season 1 (2017)
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 [...]
Kiarostami: Nema-ye Nazdik (Close-Up) (1990)
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 [...]
Genovese: Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers) (2017)
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 [...]
Scorsese: Silence (2017)
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 [...]
Foley: Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
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 [...]
Washington: Fences (2016)
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 [...]