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’...
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...
Game Night (2018)
Game Night Written by Mark Perez and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein, Game Night is a wonderful, fast moving and very funny dark comedy-cum-thriller. It just sneaks up on you and offers a refreshing antidote to the overrated, pretentious Oscar-winner The Shape of Water. In fact, it mercifully wipes out the bad taste left by that nonsense. Right from the delightful opening scenes where we see...
The Shape of Water (2018)
The Fish is Off: The Shape of Water (2018) Well, I knew it was about the interspecies love between a woman and a sea creature from the South American lagoons. And yet nothing quite prepared me for that…shall we say, interesting plot development half-way through. Nor was I ready for the way that Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) prepares herself for her day’s work as a cleaner at a *ahem* top-secret government facility in the...
Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther (2018) If ever there was a film that was going to be as bullet-proof as the Black Panther’s suit then it was this one. The time is as right as it ever could be for releasing the first superhero film with an African-American lead (except that it’s not really the first) and it seems to be by general consensus – even before the film’s release – that if you don’t hail Black Panther as a seminal, groundbreaking...
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