Like David Lynch in the 80’s and 90’s, Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos is bringing dark, surreal cinema to a mainstream audience. Some, however, feel his films are more about superficial weirdness and shock value than substance. Those calls might become a little louder with his latest piece of misanthropic mayhem the drama/ horror/ comedy triptych, Kinds of Kindness. While
Read moreThe fake moon landing conspiracy has been a fertile myth for many years and even inspired a decent thriller in 1977’s fake Mars landing romp, Capricorn One. Now, the amiable, old fashioned and slightly clunky Fly Me to the Moon, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, attempts, with middling success, to build a rom-com and a good old American propaganda
Read moreMidnight Oil were always an intriguing mix of contradictions. They were almost as much an activist entity as a band. Their sound was an unusual mix of disparate genres such as hard rock, punk, surf music and prog and was sufficiently diverse that just about anyone would like at least some of their repertoire even if they recoiled at other
Read moreBased on the 1968 book by photojournalist Danny Lyon, Jeff Nichols’ (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special and Loving) The Bikeriders tracks the fortunes of the fictitious Vandals Motor Cycle Club from the mid-60s to the early 70’s. The Vandals, who are based on the Outlaws Motorcycle Club with whom Lyon was briefly a member, represent the rough, raucous but free-spirited
Read moreLoosely inspired by Henry James’ novella The Beast In The Jungle, the beguiling, occasionally disturbing, sometimes funny and at times brain boggling French-Canadian science fiction film, The Beast sits beside Slaughterhouse Five and Cloud Atlas in the ‘fascinating head scratcher’ sub-genre. This is one of those films where characters shift through different realities appearing at different times and in different
Read moreHas it really been nine years since the first wonderful Inside Out film so expertly put us through the emotional wringer? That movie immediately joined the ranks of Pixar classics with its clever, exuberant and extremely moving tale of eleven-year-old girl Riley trying to cope with change and the way her emotions Joy, Anger, Aadness etc. – who were depicted
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