Movies

Dipping back into the well of nostalgia is always a tricky exercise, fraught with the unwelcome peril of finding out those backward-looking rose-coloured glasses you wear obscured one too many unsettling facts, and that perhaps there is truth in the adage that you can never really go back. Faced with Continue Reading

Every single film you watch, for better or worse, should be able to take wholly and completely into the world it creates. Sometimes that is not a good thing but in the case of films as luminously moving and meditatively complex as C’mon, C’mon, written and directed by Mike Mills Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTFrom Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, Jurassic World: Dominion immerses audiences of all ages in a new era of wonder and thrills where dinosaurs and humankind must learn to coexist. Jurassic World: Dominion is set against a global backdrop of diverse locations, with a sprawling story grounded in believable science Continue Reading

I love small, intimate, indie, arthouse movies. I also love big, blockbustery films that comes surging off the screen and make you feel as if they have enveloped you; it’s the latter that are getting some serious cinema loving in this post, and after two years plus of exhausting pandemic, Continue Reading

Let’s be clear from the outset – Marvel makes really great, utterly immersive films for the most part. It helps, of course, that they have compelling characters and fantastical premises; but then so does D.C. and they have yet to consistently turn their characters into movies that enthrall and help Continue Reading

All of us, to one fundamental degree or another, have a powerful need to belong. It is often what defines and shapes, and gives us a soul-nourishing sense of time and place, and when it is broken or taken away, we lose an immeasurable part of ourselves. This sense of Continue Reading