The Interview review
It seems highly likely that The Interview will now be remembered primarily as the film at the centre of one of the most high profile hacks in history and not, as might otherwise have happened, as a somewhat satirical and occasionally amusing comedy. When it comes to stickiness, those two ideas just don’t compare. For many … Read more
Selma review
It’s telling that Selma is called just that and not instead King, or maybe MLK. This may be a film with the commanding presence of Dr. Martin Luther King at the centre, but it’s also about a very specific time in a very specific place. By telling the story of the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches of 1965, … Read more
Ned Rifle review
Hal Hartley‘s Ned Rifle completes a trilogy that began with 1997’s Henry Fool. At the time, Fool cemented Hartley’s reputation as a key figure in independent American film, and an artist with his own, very specific voice. In that first film of the series, Hartley introduces the dysfunctional Grim family before sending them into disarray with the arrival of the titular Henry (Thomas … Read more
Inherent Vice review
This feature adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice begins with a pretty classic film noir set-up but takes off in a number of very unusual directions from there on out. In the Gordita Beach, California of 1970, Private Eye Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is visited by his long estranged ex-girlfriend. She’s bringing him a case to solve. Rich … Read more