Dune: Part Two movie review: shifting sands
Ugly, outrageous, brutal, and cynical; a genuinely terrifying film about power and politics as religion and control. There is little escapism here; hits square in the social plexus of horrifying 2024.
Charlotte Rampling
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Feb 25-Mar 01
Charlotte Rampling stars in drama Hannah; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
The Little Stranger movie review: so many ways to be haunted
A glorious gothic conundrum of obsession, delusion, psychological infection, and just possibly actual malevolent spirits. The most haunting aspect of this eerily enrapturing film may be the sly, maddening ambiguity of it all.
Red Sparrow movie review: undercovers agent
Ballerina turned whore-spy? This is like a cheap porn scenario, and the Hollywood gloss makes it worse. Risible yet tedious, yet another movie by men that thinks it’s critiquing misogyny yet is indistinguishable from it.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Feb 23
Natalie Portman and Bingbing Li have scientific adventures, Rachel McAdams has a nerd adventure, and more…
my predictions for Oscars 2016 (88th Academy Awards for 2015’s films)
Now updated with all the winners…
AWFJ 2015 EDA Awards winners announced
Spotlight takes four awards, including Best Film…
45 Years movie rating: green light
Keenly observed drama about a couple shaken by an unexpected blast from the past, featuring a career-best performance by Charlotte Rampling.
OFCS 2015 awards winners announced
Mad Max: Fury Road gets a lot of love…
The Sea review: the sands of time are dun-colored
Ciarán Hinds engages in some pointlessly dour Irish brooding at the beach.
