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 readKazuo Ishiguro pens Living, a British adaption of a Kurosawa classic with Bill Nighy, and Shazam! 2 tries to pick up the pieces of DC…
By Francisco Silva - 8 min readThis week Andrea Riseobourgh proves that her Oscar nod was well deserved, while Bobby Farrelly does the offensively bare minimum
By Francisco Silva - 7 min readSam Mendes writes and directs this prestige drama that in spite of Olivia Coleman’s tremendous performance, fails to hit the right buttons.
By Francisco Silva - 5 min readThis week, one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking British debuts in recent memory, and a film so ludicrously entertaining that it’s hard to believe…
By Francisco Silva - 6 min readSarah Polley’s thought-provoking Women Talking confronts oppression and patriarchy as two interchangeable concepts, while Marvel’s Ant-Man does the bare minimum
By Francisco Silva - 6 min readThe director of The Father continues his trilogy, and Vicky Krieps helms a new type of period drama.
By Francisco Silva - 7 min readTwo established filmmakers succumb to their worst whims in two fairly mediocre films that are ironically both saved by a tremendous central performance.
By Francisco Silva - 7 min readCate Blanchett’s immense masterclass performance deserves to be studied years to come in Todd Field’s expertly designed story about the self-destructive power of the ego.
By Francisco Silva - 4 min readBodily fluids flow freely in Damien Chazelle’s satire? Homage? Sure it’s a mess, but is it entertaining enough to excuse its shortcomings?
By Francisco Silva - 5 min readThe team behind Malignant delivers again a surprisingly entertaining and unpretentious film.
By Francisco Silva - 4 min read