Carnal Knowledge: a great new war movie, and Mike Nichols
Our cinemas are full of exciting product this month. There was the Babadook around Halloween, an above-average creeper, then Interstellar, which packed a lifetime’s experience into its galactic proportions (and by some accounts it felt like it),…
Sir Dickie takes the Big Sleep
With the summer gone, it is time to take stock of some of the summer movies, for whose sake I have sadly neglected the arthouse fare: it is my one chance of the year to catch up with popular cinema,…
Seven Days a Week
Last week I saw two very different films, both built around the concept of one week’s events, and both using the days of the week as chapter titles up on the screen. The first was Jaume Balagueró’s psychological horror,…
Summer Madness
I wrote this in the midst of this summer’s seemingly unending cycle of effects movies. I have been to see Tom Cruise in Oblivion, Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man Three, and the new Star Trek film, Into Darkness,…