Cinemagoers might have thought the Marvel movie onslaught had diminished, well guess what, it’s back! There’s the big-ticket Avengers Doomsday on the horizon and smaller films (by Marvel standards) popping up like Captain America: Brave New World and the latest offering, the oddly paced, uneven but intriguingly introspective Thunderbolts. Thunderbolts is a sequel of sorts to 2021’s disappointing Black Widow
Read moreWe’ve seen many variations on the vampire film, from sinister baldy Nosferatu to George Hamilton’s suspiciously suntanned disco dancing Dracula in Love at First Bite. Now, Ryan Coogler’s (Fruitvale Station, Black Panther) latest film, Sinners weaves the vampire into the supernatural mythology infusing early delta blues. This novel approach gives us a gory romp that’s also surprisingly soulful and almost
Read moreThe Salt Path is part of a slowly growing movie subgenre, the “redemption and self-discovery through a very long walk in the wilderness” film, think Wild with Reese Witherspoon and Australian film The Way, My Way with Bill Bennett. This style of film has some built in advantages as it comes with immediate personal drama, a self-improvement narrative and nice
Read moreAnyone who has aspirations of working in a commercial kitchen should not see La Cocina, it will kill those dreams stone dead. While well-acted, at times insightfully written and artfully shot, this extremely bitter pill of a film makes for a fairly miserable night at the movies. La Cocina is set in the kitchen of a fictitious New York restaurant
Read moreGuaranteed to fascinate and infuriate, the Australian/ Irish co-production The Surfer, which stars Nicolas Cage and Julian McMahon is an impressively strange beast. Frequently shifting gears between Wake In Fright-style ‘civilised foreigner meets Aussie ferals’ drama, surreal Twilight Zone-esque moral fable and a critique of the idiotic ‘manosphere’ culture, it constantly challenges our expectations. Fans of the criminally overlooked 1968
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Hello, A real mix bag this week, as the music drifts back to a “Golden Era”, whilst the interview certainly takes us to the future Please Enjoy JC
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