Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
Ho Chih-wei (River Huang) lives in a Taipei apartment with his grandmother Shu-fang (Liu Yin-shang). He works as a junior real estate agent while dating his girlfriend of five years, Shen Yi-chun (Tiffany Hsu Wei-ning). His aunt Shui has gone missing, and a video of her on a mountainside walk shows a mysterious girl in ...
There are three more instalments to go on this comprehensive list of my favourite feature films of the past 10 years. While the exact numbers and rankings are relatively arbitrary, the fact that these films are sitting in my top 75 films means I consider them really very good. They all come with my enthused ...
Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) has recovered from a childhood trauma, and is now both married to Gabe (Winston Duke) and the mother of two children. When four strangers force their way into her house one night, Adelaide and her family find themselves face-to-face with murderous doppelgängers intent on replacing them. Writer/director Jordan Peele follows his excellent ...
Frank (Keanu Reeves) is reluctantly attending his half-brother's wedding in Paso Robles, California. At the airport he has an unpleasant encounter with Lindsay (Winona Ryder) - who turns out to be Frank's brother's ex-fiancée, and is attending the same wedding. Destination Wedding is a romantic comedy that pairs together Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder for the ...
With the 2010s now passed, it is time to review the decade's best achievements. From here we enter my 100 favourite films of the past decade: this is a measure of how much I enjoy them, rather than a measure of quality. With 100 films from 10 years, everything from here is good enough - ...
Just a quick note that this review contains more significant plot spoilers than are usually included on this website. In short: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is an excellent film by Quentin Tarantino that embraces in full his personal filmmaking style - but does contain some problematic elements that provoked a slightly ambivalent reaction when I ...
The end of the 2010s is upon us, and I have been taking the opportunity to count down through my favourite films over the past 10 years. This is definitely a favourites list, and not a more pompous "best of" list. It's also important to note that it's a personal list based on what I ...
