Reviews

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”  This remains to be one of my favourite idioms of all time. The beauty of art is very rarely...

In 2011, I was introduced to Asghar Farhadi’s superb film A Separation and his unique “everything that can go wrong, will go wrong”...

There are very few instances in this world where the reality of the matter is more interesting than any form of fiction. Such is the case...

I can just imagine what the pitch meeting for I, Frankenstein was like…It was probably a lot like, if not identical to, the pitch about a...

January is my least favourite month for new movies. By this time of year, Hollywood studios are focusing much of their attention on the...

The war film genre is one where the sensationalisation of the gains and losses on the battlefield and highly fictionalized moments...

The essence of any character piece, especially one like this, is that for a short period of time (in this case, an hour and forty-five...

Keanu Reeves may not be the best actor working today. His monotone delivery is one that is easily recognized and yet constantly...

From the moment the screen fills with light, and we come face-to-face with Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), his eyes are desolate...

The heist film genre is one of the most exciting film genres in recent memory, thanks to the likes of elaborate minds and stylistically...

One of the very fortunate aspects of the film form, aside from affective story-telling techniques, is the value of its aesthetic beauty....

The fact that I have never seen Mary Poppins should not compromise the extent of happiness that I experienced as a youngster. Yes, it may...

It isn’t uncommon that after I leave a deeply affecting, emotional roller-coaster of a film that I am left speechless. Contrary to its...

There are movies that can be put in a category appropriately labelled ‘Oscar bait’; and if there is one film that exemplifies that best...

The question at the surface of Alexander Payne’s newest feature is; what would you do with a million dollars? Although the very  fabric...

As Adele (Adèle Exarchopoulos) crosses Place Richebé in Lille, France, on what appears to be a seamlessly mundane day, and gazes upon the...

It’s no surprise that some of the most effective works of the Beatnik generation were born in the scuzzy halls of jazz bars; soaked with...

Since before the start of the new millennium until just after 2010, Matthew McConaughey ‘s body of work was just that, a body that worked...

As Our Man ( Robert Redford ) narrates the only monologue throughout a practically dialogue-free film, as the deck floods and the water...

If you were able to travel back in time to the past events of your life, what exactly would you change? In Richard Curtis‘ new...