If the title hadn’t already given it away, you should know that Silence is about the refuge and relationship with sound. Otherwise, it’s just a beautiful film about a bearded man skulking about the Irish countryside and confusing the locals with a furry stick for a microphone. This is cinematic art at it’s most lush. … Continue reading
Good Vibrations is an energetic biopic of the charismatic Pied Piper of punk Terri Hooley. 70’s Belfast was not a pretty place, but under the rubble of a crumbling war-torn city, Terri was on a one man mission to drown out the sounds of warring chaos with some very loud music. Terri’s unbridled love of … Continue reading
Firstly, Lovelace isn’t a porno. I repeat. It is not a porno. Unless you’re the kind of person who gets their kicks out of watching a woman psychologically and physically oppressed, which if you are, you shouldn’t be reading this, you should be locked up somewhere dark and damp. Linda Lovelace will strike a chord … Continue reading
I was reluctant to read any review that basically summarised The Great Gatsby as ‘a bit OTT’ as that would surely be missing the point. Of course it was going to be as garish as a kebab shop at Christmas – this is a Baz Luhrmann film, not Emmerdale. You don’t go to a dubstep … Continue reading
Behind The Candelabra was deemed ‘too gay’ for Hollywood, yet charmed the spandex off the Cannes crowd. Could this be the best bromance film ever? With the flamboyance to make Lady Gaga look like Kate Middleton, Valentino Liberace was once the world’s highest-paid entertainer. A walking contradiction, the pianist and vocalist embraced all spectrums of camp … Continue reading
The much-publicised story of a bunch of misguided teens that went around robbing celebrity mansions soon became the footnote of hero worship gone wrong and gave director Sophia Coppola a good reason to revisit her cinematic roots. These well-to-do Californian brats went one further than romanticising about the A-lister life via glossy magazines, and decided … Continue reading
Maybe, when I’m retired, divorced, have kids who are divorced and have enough time on my hands to try tantric sex for nine hours without thinking ‘I must hang up the washing’ , things that mean everything now, will mean nothing then. Maybe, in my Tenna Lady years, I’ll breeze over the fact my partner … Continue reading
Not the kind of person that goes on a tacky chat show to discover if you share your DNA with the milkman? Make like Oscar-nominated Sarah Polley (Take This Waltz director) and make a very classy documentary about it instead. Stories We Tell starts as one woman’s sympathetic inquiry into discovering if the guy she … Continue reading
I want to love the idea of outdoor screenings, really I do. Oh the joyous time I’ll have, sipping a cocktail from a marmalade jar as I watch a classic unfold on to a massive blanket on a barge. Only the twinkling of the moon and maybe the shuffle of someone’s wasabi popcorn can momentarily interrupt the … Continue reading
The concept of celebrity is having a bad day. It’s being snapped with no make-up, a bag of white powder and with a camera lens that’s so far up its skirt it could provide a smear test. Nothing new to see here but again the Warhols of contemporary cinema are painting a grubby picture of … Continue reading
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