There's a particular method of thematic storytelling that takes a realistic construct and simply explores what would happen if you turned up the dials. Notably that's been a technique used in recent years by Jordan Peele in his Us and Get Out wher... Read the full review »
Bong Joon-Ho's Oscars surprise Parasite turns up the dials on a realistic construct to make for an exciting, engaging, and highly organic exploration of class. Read the full blog post »
WHAT I LIKED: There's no doubt about it, Bong Joon-Ho's Snowpiercer (which takes place in a dystopian future where a gas to combat climate change has plunged the earth into a deadly ice age) packs one of the most inventive science fiction concepts... Read the full review »
WHAT I LIKED: Few films bring their central characters to life quite as perfectly as Olivia Wilde's Booksmart does its pair of high school besties. We follow them on the course of one night trying to have some fun on their last day, but we learn e... Read the full review »
The history of cinema is chequered with technical advancements which have each come along at one time or another allowing filmmakers to tell stories in new and interesting ways. There's the birth of parallel editing (as pioneered in The Great Trai... Read the full review »
WHAT I LIKED: There's something about the depth of outer-space and the insignificance of man in it that has always allowed science fiction stories to bring the meaning of life into question, and that's exactly what Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja's... Read the full review »
The Rise of Skywalker thankfully doesn't go back on everything set-up by its predecessor, but its complicated story often makes for rather exhausting viewing. Read the full blog post »
WHAT I LIKED: The best way to describe Adrian Lyne and James Dearden's 'Fatal Attraction,' is that it's a pantomime for the big screen. What does that mean? Well, just like in a panto, in this film we're almost always a small step ahead of what th... Read the full review »
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