Guy Ritchie re-ups his signature London underworld action thriller with The Gentlemen a crime puzzle/heist gauntlet on steroids, chock full of co-dependent bromances, an easy to take crowd-pleaser. The usual. Charlie Hunnam, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Henry Golding and Eddie Marson and alpha dogs, Michelle Dockery (Lady Mary) and American ex-pat drug lord Matthew McConaughey. His massively successful marijuana grow operation’s renowned… View Post
Robert Zemeckis’ fact-based UFO series Project Blue Book begins its second season on History this week, continuing the incredible story of the US Air Force’ investigation into UFOs following an alleged alien landing in Roswell New Mexico in 1947. It’s the Cold War and the military is on high alert, not just scanning the skies for foreign threats against the… View Post
Alfre Woodard’s morally and spiritually exhausted prison warden in Chinonye Chukwu’s tense drama Clemency lives in the brain long after the film ends. Warden Williams oversees executions in her facility and has managed to repress the horror; she’s developed an intense rigidity that colours her job and her marriage; unable to sleep or connect with her long-suffering husband, she’s an automaton, carrying… View Post
Ladj Ly’s timely take on Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Misérables moves from 1862 to present-day Paris, when racism, immigration bias, police corruption, enforced prostitution and poverty still thrive. The added elements of instability, drug addiction and trafficking help push the divide between the have-nots and the police. For instance, three gendarmes, the thuggish white lead man, a black officer straddling moral… View Post
Toronto born cousins Robbie and Stephen Ammel joined forces with director Jeff Chan to make a feature-length version of their hit 2016 short film Code 8. Set in the troubling world of Lincoln City (Toronto) they are relegated to the fringes of society because they have special superpowers and because they are feared. The superpower subclass suffers from poverty, joblessness… View Post
Peter Strickland, known for his daring and provocative films including The Duke of Burgundy is no less outside the box with his sensational In Fabric a sophisticated mind-bending, ironic take on horror. The threatening soundscape and often indirect cinematography create an otherworldly, creepy vibe, giving the sense of being spied upon, over the course of three stories. And Strickland’s villain is… View Post