AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM (M) Director: James Wan (The Conjuring) Starring: Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman Rating: *1/2 Splash and burn There’s no swimming around the fact that the original Aquaman was a billion-buck-grossing blockbuster. But that was back in 2018, at the tail-end of aContinue Reading
Poor Things (MA15+) Director: Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) Starring: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo Rating: ***** A rich education, learned hard and fast Poor Things is, without doubt, the most daring, demented, arresting, amusing and downright original creation to have lit up a screen this year. The movie isContinue Reading
NAPOLEON (M) Director: Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Rupert Everett Rating: **1/2 Away from the battlefield, this Emperor has no clothes Master director Ridley Scott has been around long enough to know that if you make a movie about one of the biggest (brand) names inContinue Reading
THE DIVE (M) Director: Maximilian Erlenwein (Gravity) Starring: Sophie Lowe, Louisa Krause. Rating:hhh Holding hope while holding breath While the stakes are undoubtedly high in The Dive, the intensity levels delivered by this underwater thriller are lower than many will expect. As it turns out, the decision to calmly andContinue Reading
The Killer (MA15+) Director: David Fincher (The Social Network) Starring: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell. Rating:hhhh Another day, another dollar … and another death “Stick to the plan. Don’t improvise. Anticipate.” So goes the mantra often repeated by The Killer throughout the movie which bears his name. As playedContinue Reading
Director: Martin Scorsese (GoodFellas) Director: Martin Scorsese (GoodFellas) Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons. Rating:hhk Too long spent for too little in return There’s always a story running somewhere with Martin Scorsese running his mouth off about the sanctity of the cinema experience. According to theContinue Reading
Director: Celine Song (feature debut) Starring: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro Rating: ***** A perfect love with imperfect timing If Oppenheimer is indeed the best movie of 2023 so far, then the utterly exquisite romantic drama Past Lives is the only movie that deserves to be mentioned in theContinue Reading
Insidious:The Red Door (M) Director: Patrick Wilson (feature debut) Starring: Patrick Wilson, Ty Simpkins, Rose Byrne, Andrew Astor Rating: **1/2 A son and a father not so farther from The Further You can bring in a team of exorcists. Heck, you can even call Ghostbusters, if you like. However, noContinue Reading
Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny (M) Director: James Mangold (Ford V Ferrari) Starring: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mad Mikkelsen, Toby Jones. *** A fair (and final) crack of the whip A man. A hat. A whip. A little archaeology. A lot of adventure. These five elements were initiallyContinue Reading
Director: Gene Stupnitsky (Good Boys) Director: Gene Stupnitsky (Good Boys) Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Matthew Broderick, Laura Benanti ***1/2 Live a little, and laugh a lot There has been a theory going around for quite a while that there is no place for comedy at the movies anymore.Continue Reading