Isabelle Huppert is Frankie, a famous French actress, as life imitates art, who brings her family together, some against their will, for a last vacation. She’s dying of cancer but even that can’t soften the hearts of some family members who feel forced, even in the glorious environment of Sintra, Portugal. There’s a lot of hidden animosity under those sunny… View Post
Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited and costly epic The Irishman, based on the life of mobster Frank Sheeran reunites dozens of stars and supporting cast from Scorsese films over the past forty years. As ever, Scorsese puts us on the razor’s edge. It’s brilliantly cinematic, star-studded and features interesting and unexpected special effects, it’s complex, fascinating, historic in its execution and spans decades, a… View Post
Roland Emmerich’s love of action and adventure in original stories is clear in his body of work. The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Godzilla (1998) and Independence Day (1996) point to a finely-honed sense of the dark and dangerous. Emmerich goes down a new path with Midway, the fact-based story of one of the key pacific theatre battles of WWII. Americans… View Post
Tim Miller’s Terminator: Dark Fate the direct sequel to 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, reunites Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a real kick for the T2’s many fans. Skynet, now known as Legion has sent a new superpowered Terminator (Gabriel Luna) from the future to kill Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes) for the contributions she’ll make in the future in the human war against… View Post
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are well-matched in the curiously eccentric and utterly mesmerising The Lighthouse. Robert Eggers the genius behind the superlative supernatural drama The Witch puts the men in a lonely lighthouse off Nova Scotia standing in for New England, takes away their food supply, supplies generous amounts of whiskey, gives them hallucinations, drunken rages and brutal sea storms… View Post
Bong Joon-Ho’s nearly perfect, nerve-rattling comedy thriller Parasite is a shock to the system. It’s outrageous, comic, deadly serious and genre-bending, precise, poetic and mathematical, symmetrical in its construction, and deeply satisfying. It won this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, it’s South Korea’s entry for Best International Film at the Oscars and no kidding. Ki-taek Kim, his wife, son and daughter… View Post