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Film Review: Meeting the Man - James Baldwin in Paris (1970)
James Baldwin sharing a few pointers. One thing that you should never do is to back the person you’re interviewing into a corner; chances...


Film Review: Meanwhile On Earth (2020)
While the dearly departed are on their way out, this is what goes down in those final moments around them. Once your coffin is lowered...

Film Review: Mank (2020)
One side of the contested story of how Citizen Kane came to be. Take it with the grain of salt as is practical with cinema. When the...


Film Review: Mandy (2018)
A psychedelic rampage in its most literal form. There are plenty of films out there whose art style and direction make it perfect to...


Film Review: Lovers Rock (2020)
Steve McQueen is throwing a rockin' party, and we're all invited. Being chained to this radiator for months, I seem to recall plenty of...


Film Review: Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
I’ve exhausted an anecdote about my failing plant parenting skills in the last one, leaving behind an introduction vacuum. Who needs an...


Film Review: Life is Beautiful (1997)
It's all in the name. I’m teetering carelessly on the brink of sleep; my eyelids weigh a few kilograms each right now and the only thing...

Film Review: La La Land (2016)
Jazz and cinema have a visual splendour of a ballad written to them. Wanting to follow a life-long dream is a marathon with a lot of...


Film Review: Knives Out (2019)
Cluedo! (or Clue! depending on your region), the movie. After a long shopping trip in another planet, I came back to watch a film that...


Film Review: House (1977)
Genre and slightly mind bending, this is the pinnacle of Japanese camp. “It’s unscientific, unexplainable, unnatural, unreasonable. It’s...


Film Review: Hercules (1997)
Man, if one day I ever found out I was a god, even half a of one, that would be the day my ego turns into something unstoppable. In...


Film Review: Good Morning, Vietnam (1983)
His voice continues oscillating with fervour and wit, turning even the most warn-torn swamps into a layback. War is ugly business, and in...


Film Review: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
You're just about ready to ride in a convertible then, aren't you? The spectacle and notion of working on an assignment completely ripped...

Film Review: Fargo (1996)
One fuck up after another, strung together with marvellous effect. Collateral damage is everywhere, you have no idea of the undue damage...


Film Review: Casino (1995)
DING DONG WHAAAAAAM Right into the flashing faux heart of the plastic city. I’m not a gambling man, the closest I ever got to it was when...


Film Review: Cars 2 (2011)
Whoever thought it was a good idea to stab the Cars universe through the heart with the wooden stake of a spy storyline is either a...


Film Review: Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Goddamn is this a mess. Like a sour aftertaste on the eyes. There’s a certain conflict of interest when watching films about a band or...


Film Review: The Green Knight (2021)
An age-old fantastical tale gets pulled out of the fathoms of history and is given a brilliant revival on the screen. Honour is a...


Film Review: The Master (2012)
Glorious 70mm film which is a beautiful and vivid portrait of incompatible friendship and guidance in a world far removed from memory and...


Film Review: The Human Voice (2020)
This modernised adaptation of Jean Cocteau's play sees Pedro Almodóvar setting an anguished stage of loneliness and abandonment. The...

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