Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Black cowboys fighting urban gentrification; a father repairing his relationship with his son and a parable of both gun violence and black ontology. (Can you really think of a better way to spend an evening?!) Like practically everybody else in the country, when faced with a bank holiday Monday in lockdown, I turned […]
Susan Sontag once defined ‘Camp’ as being ‘a seriousness that fails’. On all fronts, Cats is obviously a failure, but the question iss how intentional it all is. After all, it’s impossible to bring any dignity to a film about singing, magical cats, yet somehow this cinematic adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running musical is […]
With two-time Oscar nominated director Hany Abu-Assad, and lead roles from household names Idris Elba and Kate Winslet, one would expect more from The Mountain Between Us. But, instead, the writers offer us forced romance, awkward jokes, and an excruciatingly cringey ending, making this film an overall disappointment. The film begins with Ben (Elba) and […]
The real point, surely, of any awards ceremony is to provide everyone the opportunity to be utterly irate about how their particular favourite film/ actor/ musician/ type of cumquat has been passed over. The Oscars are no exception. Rather they are the yearly high point for people grumpily complaining about how ridiculous it is that […]