Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) Review
★★★★
After months of growing anticipation, The Force Awakens finally hit theatres across the globe as (basically) everyone sighed a collective sound of relief. I hate to be that guy, but -- I told you so. J. J. Abrams has done to Star Wars the same thing he did to Star Trek: carefully constructed an incredibly enjoyable, tightly edited . . .
The Art Of The Star Wars VII Trailers
And The Martian
Two of the most hotly anticipated science-fiction films of the year are The Martian, and of course, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Both of these films are creating hype through a multi-platform advertising campaign. The Martian through short character vignettes uploaded to YouTube under the channel name ARES: live, simulating a . . .
Sitges Film Festival: Anomalisa (2015) Review
★★★★
Anomalisa is instantly recognisable as a Charlie Kaufman film as soon as the first lines of dialogue start meshing over each other in voiceover. It's no great wonder why he is one of the best screenwriters working in the U.S.- he has such a strong and distinctive style of structure and dialogue. Like every other Kaufman film, . . .
Sitges Film Festival: Victoria (2015) Review
★★★1/2
By Kai Granaas
To start on an uncontroversial note, Victoria is better than Birdman. Phew - glad that's out of the way. "While on holiday in Berlin, a young woman finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals its secret: the four men owe someone a . . .
Sitges Film Festival: Love 3D (2015) Review
★★★★
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By Kai Granaas
This heavily hyped and marketed "3D porn movie" is anything but that. Love is a drama about a man depressed in his relationship and fatherhood, pining after an electric relationship he had before he messed it up. Gaspar Noé produces yet another "shocking" film, maybe even more talked about . . .
Sitges Film Festival: Absolutely Anything (2015)
★★
By Kai Granaas
I was warned not to get my hopes up and didn't listen, now I pay the price. How could it go wrong? The Pythons! Simon Pegg! Terry Jones at the helm! Sadly, Absolutely Anything is a very silly, very trivial and very forgettable film.
This is not to say that it doesn't produce laughs - there . . .
London Film Festival: A Bigger Splash (2015)
★★★1/2
By Raghav Bali
In a world where remakes are decried as the death of cinema, here comes director Luca Guadagnino with the erotic black comedy A Bigger Splash, a reimagining of the Jacques Deray’s 1969 film La Piscine. Held together by a four incredible but vitally unique performances from its four lead actors, Ralph Fiennes, . . .
