Movie

There was a point while watching CHIPS when I realised that I was actively hoping that both the leads might die in a motorcycle accident. That was at about the twenty five minute mark. There was over an hour to go.…

The adjective that often comes up when discussing the movies of Asghar Farhadi is human. Between his subtle direction, the masterful turns he mines from his frequent acting collaborators and the three-dimensional characters he writes –…

The latest in a string of recession cinema – Hell or High Water, Money Monster, I, Daniel Blake – The Olive Tree focuses on young woman Alma (Anna Castillo), a person who shares a deep bond with her grandfather, Roman (Manuel Cucala). When…

It's interesting that much of the promotional material for Kong: Skull Island deliberately evokes Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Don't put too much stock in this. This isn't a re-imagining of the King Kong story as a Heart of Darkness style…

Paris When It Sizzles was panned when released in 1964 and doesn’t exist in Audrey Hepburn’s diamond-encrusted canon as we know it today. No frame from the movie has been turned into decorative pop art. You probably won’t find a postcard…

I know, I know, we've been neglecting you, and we're still undecided as to the overall direction of this podcast, but we just had to make an episode for Oscars 2017, so here we are. If you listened to our InHouse Oscar podcast from last…

*Contains mild plot details* Describing what happens in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight is like trying to recount a dream: you can relate the events which transpired but they’re not really what made an impression in the first place. After the…

20th Century Women is a film about there being no consensus. Single Mom Dorothea (Annette Benning) is running a boarding house in 1979 Santa Barbara. She invites the women in her life to help raise her son Jamie to 'be a man'. The invitees…

There is a moment in the recent film Nocturnal Animals which is very relevant in regards to Manchester by the Sea. In the former, Jake Gyllenhaal’s character writes a novel where a man’s wife and children are killed. We see the aftermath of…

In the years between 1990 and 2013, cult surrealist and provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky did not make a single film. For reasons, both financial and personal, he was on an extended hiatus that he may have enjoyed but we certainly didn’t.…