Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
The 25 year partnership of Miami police detectives Mike Lowry (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) is coming to an end, as new grandfather Marcus decides to take up an early retirement. When Mike is targeted for assassination by Mexican drug lords, however, the partnership needs to be kept together for just a few ...
Matthew Barney is one of the USA's highest profile contemporary artists, primarily due to his internationally successful Cremaster Cycle of art films that were produced between 1994 and 2002. Over the course of his career he has worked with physical performance, sculpture, drawing, and photography. He has been both criticised and praised, but even those praising his ...
Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel Little Women remains one of the most perennially popular books of all time. It tells the story of the four March sisters and their close family and friends, facing domestic troubles, love, loss, and sibling rivalry in the years during and following the American Civil War. It's popularity has extended to Hollywood, ...
10 years after their near-fatal shootout with police, rampage killers Otis (Bill Moseley) and Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie) escape from prison - their companion Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) having been executed for his crimes. Teaming up with criminal "Foxy" Coltrane (Richard Brake), they make a break for Mexico, although Baby's murderous obsessions may see them ...
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 ...
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 ...
