Film of the week: The Fall Guy, plus ticket giveaway
Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in a love letter to the stunt professionals of Hollywood. Shot in Sydney’s CBD, it offers little beyond impressive…
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readRyan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in a love letter to the stunt professionals of Hollywood. Shot in Sydney’s CBD, it offers little beyond impressive…
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readThe Japanese director behind 2021’s Drive My Car delivers a beautiful and contemplative eco-drama that ends with one of this year’s most harrowingly haunting endings.
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readAlex Garland divides opinions, and America, in a nihilistic war fantasy. And the surprise Spanish animated Robot Dreams is a charming piece that both breaks and…
By Francisco Silva - 6 min readBack in the world of thrillers, David Fincher takes the chance to explore some overlooked themes of the genre.
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readMartin Scorsese’s new film about the Osage murders is less about the investigation than what it says about the truth of America.
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readProlific French filmmaker François Ozon’s new film relies on Isabelle Huppert to elevate its charm, but misses a chance for a perfect crowd-pleaser.
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readNoora Niasari’s feature debut, aided by one of the best performances of the year, effectively unpacks a difficult subject without emotional manipulation
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readGareth Edwards escapes the Star Wars Universe to bring a new, original and exciting sci-fi romp aimed to please everyone yearning for new original stories….
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readKenneth Branagh’s third Poirot feature is a fun gothic whodunit that gets to elevate the original story but, more importantly, liberate the filmmaker from his…
By Francisco Silva - 3 min readAn impressive feature debut, Scrapper charmingly merges the British tradition of ‘kitchen sink drama’ with magic realism.
By Francisco Silva - 3 min readCeline Song’s feature debut is a worthy successor of Before Sunrise and Lost In Translation. Heartbreaking and beautifully acted, but it is Song’s direction that elevates…
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readBetween dog whistles and support by some controversial people, Sound of Freedom’s biggest problem is its dullness.
By Francisco Silva - 3 min readOn his third feature, Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason steps up his game in a beautiful but bleak meditation on the destructiveness of masculinity against an…
By Francisco Silva - 3 min read