The Colour Purple is the cinema adaptation of the stage musical adaptation of the 1985 Steven Spielberg film adaptation of the 1892 Alice Walker novel. This time, Blitz Bazawule rather than Spielberg directs although Spielberg and Quincy Jones return as producers alongside the stage musical’s producers Scott Sanders and Oprah Winfrey. The stage to screen adaptation can be a tricky
Read moreLike David Lynch in the 1990s and 2000s, Yorgos Lanthimos has brought dark humour and surreal artistry at least a little closer to mainstream cinema. He’s skewered relationships and social conformity in The Lobster, elitist power structures in The Favourite and the suburban family in The Killing Of a Sacred Deer. Now, he turns his darkly comic gaze to sexism
Read moreWriter/director Kristoffer Borgli’s strange psychological drama, Dream Scenario joins Beau Is Afraid, Poor Things, Babylon and various others in the impressive roster of inventively odd recent films. In one of his career best performances, Nicolas Cage stars as evolutionary biology professor Paul Mathews, a seemingly ordinary chap who becomes the centre of a bizarre social phenomena. People begin reporting that
Read moreOne Life, starring Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Helena Bonham Carter and Romola Garai, tells the remarkable and very moving true story of the man often referred to as Britain’s Oscar Schindler, Nicholas Winton. Winton (played as a young man by Johnny Flynn) was a London stockbroker who, in 1938, having learned of the growing refugee crisis in Czechoslovakia, flew to
Read moreWish, which has been released as part of Disney studios 100th birthday is a cute, occasionally charming but underwhelming animated musical fantasy that attempts to pay homage to Disney classics. Like many Disney and other animated features of the last few years, it’s about a feisty but uncertain young woman empowering herself through a fight with a nasty authority figure.
Read moreIn the last decade or so, Woody Allen has attempted to prove wrong Mia Farrow’s character from his film Husbands and Wives and show he can survive off the Island of Manhattan for more than 48 hours by making films in European cities. In his latest effort, Coup de Chance, Woody goes a step further and expunges even more traces
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