Hereditary (2018)
2018-06-15
If you don’t look, it doesn’t exist. If you don’t think about it, it didn’t happen. A strategy employed byContinue Reading
Edie (2018)
2018-05-28
Widower Edie Moore (Sheila Hancock) is climbing the walls. Which is more than can be said for her late husbandContinue Reading
On Chesil Beach (2017)
2018-05-19
On Chesil Beach is a screen adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novella of the same name and Dominic Cooke’s directorial debut.Continue Reading
Tully (2018)
2018-05-13
It’s life, Jim, just as we know it. Several years and several thousand pounds studying English literature only to end up inContinue Reading
Beast (2018)
2018-05-04
For the first hour, writer and director Michael Pearce’s debut feature is a gripping psychological drama about a young womanContinue Reading
Love, Simon (2018)
2018-04-18
As he says in his opening voice-over, cute teenager Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) leads a “perfectly normal life” and isContinue Reading
Ghost Stories (2018)
2018-04-17
It may have more twists than a Chubby Checker convention, but to use the title of another track by theContinue Reading
A Quiet Place (2018)
2018-04-12
It’s day 89. Not in the Big Brother House or since Anthony McPartlin had a slug of the demon drinkContinue Reading
Wonder Wheel (2017)
2018-03-15
Ebbing had three billboards, Coney Island has one. And its weathered appearance and empty boast sets the tone for WoodyContinue Reading
You Were Never Really Here (2018)
2018-03-13
It’s a dog eat dog world. And the dogged assassin with the hangdog face Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is top dog. IfContinue Reading
Thoroughbreds (2017)
2018-03-10
Thoroughbreds is a dark comedy-thriller written and directed by Cory Finley; it is also his directorial debut, which is astounding,Continue Reading
Red Sparrow (2018)
2018-03-07
I’ll keep it short. I only wish screenwriter Justin Haythe (A Cure for Wellness, Revolutionary Road) had. Sandwiched between aContinue Reading
Phantom Thread (2018)
2018-03-02
Phantom Thread has much in common with Call Me By Your Name in that both are slow burners about opposites whoContinue Reading
Lady Bird (2018)
2018-03-01
Parting, they say, is such sweet sorrow. A lesson learned by the self-proclaimed Lady Bird aka high school senior Christine McPhersonContinue Reading