Category Archives: Reviews

Initial Impression: Isle of Dogs (2018)

Posted on April 2, 2018 by

Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs is a return to stop-motion animation for the pristine American auteur. The form and style was a revelation for his adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox. With its lightning cuts and the juxtaposition between … Continue reading →

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Review: Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)

Posted on March 28, 2018 by

Pacific Rim Uprising is an excited adolescent of a movie that breathlessly dashes about the place with sugary notions of family and identity in the manner of the most well-intentioned Power Rangers episode. The sequel takes place ten years after … Continue reading →

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Review: Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by

Jodorowsky’s Dune is a heartening and often amusing experience that hoists the weight of the auteur theory on its shoulders with vivid and sobering clarity. Frank Pavich’s documentary charts the early career of Chilian-French director- Alejandro Jodorowsky and his subsequent … Continue reading →

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Review: Black Panther (2018)

Posted on February 26, 2018 by

To say that Black Panther is a movie of the moment is one of the most significant understatements of the century. Aside from the character’s solo feature debut representing the culmination of nearly thirty years of various attempts to bring … Continue reading →

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Review: The Shape of Water (2018)

Posted on February 19, 2018 by

The Shape of Water is an enchanting fairy tale drenched in Americana. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War in the early sixties: The latest film from the Mexican fantasy auteur, (Guillermo del Toro) recounts the touching love story … Continue reading →

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Review: Phantom Thread (2018)

Posted on February 5, 2018 by

Much like the lavish and regally constructed dresses that the renowned central character makes throughout Phantom Thread: Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest feature is a nimble and cunningly made drama that has many surprises woven within its fabric. Set in 1950s London … Continue reading →

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Review: Prometheus (2012)

Posted on April 10, 2017 by

In the warm and pleasant summer of 2012, I left Ridley Scott’s Prometheus with a sense of majestic confusion. The film had cast a spell of bewilderment that has been hard to untangle in the intervening years. This was in … Continue reading →

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