“The ’80s,” gasps Jared Leto (the eponymous Ares) with something approaching the human emotion of reverence. “Classic,” he says during a sequence paying extended homage to the visuals of the original Tron movie. “I love the 80s,” he fawns as he...
Of course there have been inevitable (and not entirely unfair) jokes about The Rock running for an Oscar since The Smashing Machine was announced, but Safdie and Johnson certainly make a compelling case for it. While even a wig and some prosthetics...
Of course there have been inevitable (and not entirely unfair) jokes about The Rock running for an Oscar since The Smashing Machine was announced, but Safdie and Johnson certainly make a compelling case for it. While even a wig and some prosthetics...
Therapy, as we know, can take a number of different forms. For Australian multi-instrumentalists and Nick Cave cohort, Warren Ellis, this process of self-enrichment encompasses a wildlife sanctuary for abused animals in Sumatra. Filmmaker Justin Kurzel captures Ellis’s musical theorising and grey-beard...
The first image of György Pálfi’s Hen – an extended close-up on a chicken’s cloaca as she lays an egg – might take the prize for the most arresting opening shot of 2025. It’s certainly a sight most cinephiles won’t have seen before, and...
Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail played at the Cannes Film Festival a full year before Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning It Was Just an Accident, which is worth noting in that both films have strikingly similar set-ups regarding the moral and ethical pretexts...
Early into the namesake for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie) venture back in time to his high school, on the night of his first heartbreak. He clutches his chest, but smiles – laughs, even. “It...
When an actor wins a big award, or in the case of Cillian Murphy, the biggest award, the pressure mounts when it comes to answering that old chestnut of what happens next. Respect to Murphy, as rather than cash in his...
For anyone that has paid even a modicum of attention to the daily images coming out of Palestine, the scenes that make up From Ground Zero will be very familiar. Compiled of 22 shorts, all created since Israel increased their military efforts...
It’s sad to have to admit but a certain two word review came to mind while watching Rob Reiner’s belated and wholly unnecessary return to the world of adorably clueless British hair-mettlers, Spinal Tap. Not straight away mind, as the film...
