To use an adage from an upcoming film, Suburbicon is not a place it’s a people. Very white people to be exact, as is hilariously outline in the welcome to town video at the top of the film. Oh yes, they come from New York to Mississippi to live in the picturesque town, but things
Brutal honesty in its visuals of farm life as well as its main relationship, God’s Own Country is an intimate look at the life of one gay man living in Yorkshire as the challenges of being isolated and having to do a ton of work at his family’s farm is met in intensity by the
Thor: Ragnarok might be the cinematic equivalent of fitting a square peg in a round hole in that the movie manages to fit an entertaining spectacle into what was formerly a rigid character, but you can definitely feel the strain of getting it in there. Most of the challenges to the movie truly being transcendent
Movies can come carefully constructed to elicit emotion and when packaged appropriately can do so. However, when the audience can feel the pull or the mechanics behind the finished product, it becomes less of a thrilling experience. Breathe, the directorial debut of Andy Serkis, contains many a compelling element and is stitched together for maximum
Movies can be about ideas, they can be about plot. They can be about characters and mood and images and anything you want them to be. What movies shouldn’t be is an amalgamation of all of these that doesn’t allow the film to rise above. Blade Runner 2049 has some incredible and admirable elements but
Incomprehensible from the first frame and devoid of most of the charm that made the first one such a success, Kingsman: The Golden Circle is just a slog of a film that even the brilliant Pedro Pascal and Taron Egerton can’t make totally enjoyable. The Kingsman franchise is very much all about style from the