Agnès Varda is one of the last living vestiges of the French New Wave that transformed cinema in the 1960’s. Varda’s place within the movement has mostly taken a backseat to the more front-and-center legends likeRead Full Review
Month: January 2018
Darkest Hour
Darkest Hour is a holdover from a previous time. A very traditional biopic that praises all of the things that the movies couldn’t stop praising in, say 1997. As a Churchill biopic, it is farRead Full Review
The 2017 JC Awards
Best Director Gold: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Silver: Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk Bronze: James Gray, The Lost City of Z Best Actress Gold: Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird Silver: TIE Regina Hall & Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip Bronze: Vicky Krieps, PhantomRead Full Review
Downsizing ★★
While watching Downsizing, I was struck with the memory of a directors roundtable in 2011, which included Steve McQueen and Downsizing‘s director Alexander Payne, amongst several others. The roundtable was noted for McQueen being asked about unequalRead Full Review
The Post ★★★½
If Spotlight winning Best Picture brought back The Newspaper Movie, it did so in more of a nostalgic way. We watch newspaper films in the same way that we watch a Jane Austen adaptation. They’re moreRead Full Review