Oh hello, kids! Let’s see what random things are happening this week. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is expected to pass the 900 million dollar mark this weekend. This will put it over 2 billion dollars worldwide. I suppose that’s hardly news, though, huh? Looks like Lionsgate is going to be making a reboot of…
DetailsHoly shit, this is a sweet movie! Not since Once did some Irish jerks get to me like this. I love it and I resent it. I mean, why should I have to feel all sad when I watch a movie? Or walk around after, like, “Will I ever know love, truly?” Brooklyn takes place…
DetailsAndrew Haigh’s third feature follows his second, Weekend (2011) in depicting an intimate portrait of two people in a relationship. In Weekend, that relationship was just beginning; here, it’s deep – forty-five years deep. That’s the anniversary looming at the end of the week for Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtney) and Kate’s planning a big party with…
DetailsCarol is the latest successful adaptation of the incredibly cinema-friendly fiction of Patricia Highsmith, although here her source novel, The Price of Salt, is semi-autobiography. The material has found a perfect executor in director Todd Haynes, who combines his exquisite sense of period with a very personal subversive streak, and actors Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who both…
DetailsRomantic, moving, embracing and thoroughly old-fashioned, Brooklyn is a gorgeous film centred by a major performance by Saoirse Ronan, who is making no mistakes in fulfilling the promise she showed when she received her first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, for Atonement, in 2007, when she was thirteen years old. Now she’s nominated for Best Actress for Brooklyn, and, were…
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