Boba Fett’s journey from bounty hunter to crime lord largely takes a breather in this fourth episode; the midpoint of the series as a whole. It is an odd episode this time around, one which probably works an awful lot … Continue reading TV REVIEW: The Book of Boba Fett 1.4
Woody Allen’s most recent feature film finally hits American theatres on Friday, almost 18 months after it was released in Europe. It is a far cry from the famed writer/director’s former stature, when every arthouse and independent cinema around the … Continue reading REVIEW: Rifkin’s Festival (2020)
Let us take a look into the future to see the kinds of films we may all be watching in 2022. Once again the landscape of Hollywood blockbusters is dominated by superhero stories. C’est la vie, it is what sells … Continue reading 15 blockbusters to watch in 2022
Jon Favreau fascinates me. I remember when he was an actor, with aspirations towards directing. These days he’s better known as the director of big-budget features like Iron Man and The Jungle Book He produces and writes Disney+ series based on Star … Continue reading REVIEW: Zathura (2005)
Let us talk about filmmaker Roland Emmerich. Born in Germany, but with the bulk of his career spent in the USA, he is the director of numerous big-budget films including Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1997), and The Patriot (2000). Emmerich is big on visual effects-driven spectacle, and … Continue reading REVIEW: Stargate (1994)
‘There’s more dignity in being rejected by someone out of my league,’ says Marta (Ludovica Francesconi), a bright young Italian woman desperate for romance but struggling with worsening cystic fibrosis. Standard treatments are failing her, and she is gradually coming … Continue reading REVIEW: Out of My League (2020)
There is a critical difference I think between the Star Wars of George Lucas – essentially the Star Wars of my youth – and the Star Wars that Disney+ is streaming every Wednesday night. A core change appears to be … Continue reading TV REVIEW: The Book of Boba Fett 1.3
Luc Besson is a French film director whose personal brand of slick action thrillers – including Subway, La Femme Nikita, and Leon/The Professional – helped define what Raphaël Bassan named the ‘cinéma du look’. It was a perceived stylistic movement shared with the likes … Continue reading REVIEW: Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
Let’s have a look at silent cinema again; in this case at the role of women in silent cinema. If you glance at the earliest motion picture shorts and features, a lot of men immediately come up: Charlie Chaplin, Buster … Continue reading REVIEW: The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)
There have been attempts to adapt videogames into feature films going on for decades now. Hollywood in particular is an industry on a constant look-out for intellectual property with strong ready-made brands, and popular games would seem as viable a … Continue reading REVIEW: Animal Crossing: The Movie (2006)
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