Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018) It’s neither fair nor helpful to compare Avengers: Infinity War to any other film, because there never has been one quite like it. That’s not to comment on whether you’ll find it worthwhile waiting for – although I don’t see how any fan of this material could fail to be totally satisfied –, it’s just a simple fact. This is a film that is the culmination (to date!) of a series of...
Truth or Dare (2018)
Truth or Dare (2018) “The young actors of today are so ghastly; uninteresting; boring, tedious. They know nothing about their culture; they know nothing about the great legends of the past…” So says the playwright-actor Steven Berkoff, obviously holding his words in check. But watch this clip to see what else was bugging him: Bejeezus, only for he said all of that three years ago I would have thought that he was...
Wildling (2018)
There is only Anna and Daddy: Wildling (2018) …and here is a film that I’m going to be raving about for the rest of 2018. Wildling is a startlingly assured debut from director Fritz Böhm, who also co-writes the screenplay with Florian Eder; and it is probably the most visually luscious horror film I’ve seen in years. Although beneath it all it isn’t really a horror film at all. I suppose that at some stage the tag ‘werewolf’...
Lady Stanhope’s Manuscript and Other Stories
Lady Stanhope’s Manuscript and Other Stories Well now, here’s an odd one: an anthology that is not only very good indeed, but also comes damned near to being totally satisfying. And let’s be honest here, I’m not ever going to be to objective about a book that reintroduces me to Sibelius’s ‘Tapiola’ as well as to the music of John Tavener. Yep. For some weird reason Tavener has gone under my radar all these years; and how...
A Quiet Place (2018)
A Quiet Place (2018) I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction: by the time December 31st rolls around, John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place will be on the Top Five lists of a hell of a lot of film fans. And not just horror fans, either; because this is a piece of pure cinema and a masterclass in taut, tense filmmaking. What? You think that you’re not the type of person who could sit through a movie that stars...
Mary Magdalene (2018)
Mary Magdalene (2018) I thought that Good Friday seemed like an appropriate day to see this film for a second time. And even with this additional viewing, I’m not sure why it both haunts and moves me so much. Particularly since I find so much wrong with it. If Mel Gibson’s triumphant The Passion of the Christ was a bludgeoning, blood-and-guts, in-your-face experience, from which it was impossible to walk away unshaken, then...
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