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Venezia (2019) Review
Venezia (2019) Director: Rodrigo Guerrero Screenwriter: Rodrigo Guerrero Starring: Paula Lussi, Margherita Mannino, Alessandro Bressanello Venezia, the latest film from The Third One (2014) and The Winter of the Odd One Out (2010) screenwriter-director Rodrigo Guerrero, which follows the exploration of the city of Venice by a newly-wed turned unexpected widow, is a thoughtful cinematic piece; cinematic being the…
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7 Reasons (2019) Analytical Review
7 Reasons (2019) Director: Ray Comfort Screenwriter: Ray Comfort Narrator: Ray Comfort Ray Comfort has released another documentary. This one isn’t very good either. Unlike The Fool, “a celebration of ignorance, a treatise on sisyphism and an utterly asinine attempt at self-justification”, 7 Reasons contains no semblance of a narrative and jumps all over the…
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Ham on Rye (2019) Snapshot Review
Ham on Rye (2019) Director: Tyler Taormina Screenwriters: Tyler Taormina, Eric Berger Starring: Haley Bodell, Cole Devine, Aaron Schwartz Ham on Rye is a truly unique film based in suburbia as summer is beginning. It’s divided into two halves, each contrasting in thematic focus and visual composition. There is no protagonist; instead the film follows…
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The Mountain (2019) Snapshot Review
The Mountain (2019) Director: Rick Alverson Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, Dustin Guy Defa, Colm O’Leary Starring: Tye Sheridan, Denis Lavant, Hannah Gross, Udo Kier, Jeff Goldblum A skater slowly spins, her skates making that satisfying crunching sound as Tye Sheridan talks. This is the first moment of The Mountain, which establishes the emotional core of the…
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Greener Grass (2019) Review
Greener Grass (2019) Director: Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe Screenwriters: Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe Starring: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey Greener Grass is a masterwork in surreal comedy from all perspectives of filmmaking that keeps its logic consistent and manages to take itself completely seriously. In the opening moments, Lisa (Luebbe)…
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Dark Phoenix (2019) Review
Dark Phoenix (2019) Director: Simon Kinberg Screenwriter: Simon Kinberg Starring: Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jessica Chastain If ever there was a time to wave goodbye to the superhero sub-genre’s seminal X-Men, it would be now. After 11 movies across 19 years,…
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Ma (2019) Review
Ma (2019) Director: Tate Taylor Screenwriters: Tate Taylor, Scotty Landes Starring: Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, Juliette Lewis Ma isn’t much different from a film like The Roommate or The Stepfather. It’s about a seemingly ordinary person who is actually a violent murderer, with a teenage(ish) protagonist who is wary of the murderer’s apparent normality. The…
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Always Be My Maybe (2019) Review
Always Be My Maybe (2019) Director: Nahnatchka Khan Screenwriters: Michael Golamco, Randall Park, Ali Wong Starring: Ali Wong, Randall Park, James Saito, Michelle Buteau, Vivian Bang, Keanu Reeves, Susan Park, Daniel Dae Kim, Karan Soni, Charlyne Yi, Lyrics Born, Casey Wilson A picture very much in the mould of Netflix’s recent spate of culturally relevant,…
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Review
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) Director: Michael Dougherty Screenwriters: Michael Dougherty, Zach Shields Starring: Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Zhang Ziyi, Sally Hawkins, Ken Watanabe, Bradley Whitford, Thomas Middleditch, Aisha Hinds, O’Shea Jackson Jr. Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a beautiful piece of cinematographic art that suffers from a banal script…
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A Hard Day’s Night (1964) Retrospective Review
A Hard Day’s Night (1964) Director: Richard Lester Screenwriter: Alun Owen Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin and Victor Spinetti Contemporary analyses on popular media often fixate on the influences of nostalgia and escapism as it is now a universal acknowledgement that the crowds that fill…