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Josh Safdie's new film, Marty Supreme, is a choppy and kinetic ride that showcases Timothée Chalamet's acting talent across 150 minutes. Chalamet plays Marty, a wiry New York shoe salesman with dreams of conquering the world through table tennis. This is in part a sports drama, but this being a Safdie film, it is also a… Continue reading Film Review | Marty Supreme
Malcolm McDowell offers a manic and bold performance in this otherwise messy and bloated historical drama-porno blend. Caligula follows the titular young emperor of Rome as he ascends the throne of the Republic. His Rome is one bathed in hedonism and wealth, and under his unfettered power he further degenerates it into one of debauchery. The backdrop… Continue reading Film Review | Caligula
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths is several things, but it is most obviously a family-centric drama that focuses on several related people in their middle class lives in London. At its centre is Pansy, played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. She is a fraught, complex character that obsessed over cleanliness and acts with anger towards her quiet husband and socially… Continue reading Film Review | Hard Truths
The usual political line is that "we don't negotiate with terrorists." What happens, then, when the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is required to fuck a pig on live TV to save the princess' life? That's what The National Anthem explores. It's an exercise in tension, unease, and horror. It's a compelling watch, not least because… Continue reading Film Review | Black Mirror: The National Anthem
Social realism by way of eighties Helsinki; Shadows in Paradise is early, yet masterful Aki Kaurismäki. The film follows Nikander, a garbage collector, as he goes about his day-to-day life, which is as dull as you might expect. He works in a two-man team (under his superior), traveling the city and taking in the trash. By night,… Continue reading Film Review | Shadows in Paradise
What a title; and yes, literally, the title, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It's phonetically satisfying to read, and as a title of a motion picture, implies terror, gore, and revulsion. And The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has the three in droves. It's a film that suggests it's based on true events, something that was later revealed to… Continue reading Film Review | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974]
Perfect Days is a film about the beautiful everyday, captured precisely and artfully by veteran director Wim Wenders. Kōji Yakusho stars as Hirayama, a middle-aged janitor in Tokyo. He lives in a tiny apartment furnished with little other than his bed, some plants, and rows of books and cassette tapes of 70s and 80s rock. Every morning,… Continue reading Film Review | Perfect Days
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