Viewed at TIFF '17 The man waiting in line for tickets next to me confided that he'd been told this is Yorgos Lanthimos' darkest film. My immediate thought was that it would have to go some to live up to that statement. And to be honest, it's not far off. It's certainly as dark as … Continue reading The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
I adored this. And I am also incredibly sad having just watched it. I feel emotionally empty and also ridiculous in myself. Colin Farrell is a revelation, and I never thought I would be saying that. Just the tiniest bit irritated by the voiceover, but that's nit-picking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpt0tn1-54k
Bless me Father for I have sinned - I wasted the price of a bottle of wine and an hour and half of my life on this. Explanations out of the way first. This is not a film I would normally contemplate going to see as I am, to put it mildly, not a fan … Continue reading Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie
Even though Michael Fassbender spends most of this film with his own head stuck in a polystyrene one, this is a remarkable performance. He doesn't need to describe his hidden facial expressions for us to know what's going on, the physicality of his performance is more than enough. There are some fun parts to this … Continue reading Frank
Brendan Gleeson is always worth watching. And in this film, especially so. A great set up in the opening scene leads to a kind of 'who's going to do it' scenario, with Gleeson at the centre as the man who is trying to do right while surrounded by a collection of deeply troubled people. It's … Continue reading Calvary
It's such a joyful experience watching this film! I suppose to those of a certain age, the music which came out of Belfast and Derry in the late 70s is familiar, along with the newsreels of daily bombs and killings in Northern Ireland. What isn't so familiar, at least to me, was the story of Terri Hooley, … Continue reading Good Vibrations
