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Josh Safdie's new film, Marty Supreme, is a choppy and kinetic ride that showcases Timothée Chalamet's acting talent across 150 minutes. Chalamet plays Marty, a wiry New York shoe salesman with dreams of conquering the world through table tennis. This is in part a sports drama, but this being a Safdie film, it is also a… Continue reading Film Review | Marty Supreme
Eddie Huang, former Vice employee, is bitter. This is evident throughout Vice Is Broke a documentary from an insider's perspective. In it, Huang recounts his experiences rising to fame on his own accord (through word-of-mouth popularity of his cooking in dotcom era New York, and subsequently getting absorbed into Vice. For the uninitiated, Vice was a grassroots… Continue reading Film Review | Vice Is Broke
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in High Plains Drifter, a no-nonsense Western about an anti-hero. The film is focused on a small town in the American Frontier with all the usual personnel; a priest, a barber, a sheriff. The protagonist, an unnamed drifter (Eastwood), rolls into town one day for a drink at the bar and… Continue reading Film Review | High Plains Drifter
Escape from New York is something of an oddity. It appears, from its title and poster, as if it's a blockbuster action movie. In actuality, it's a relatively low-budget passion project and it's about as "auteur" as it gets. It's John Carpenter doing his thing in a DIY, "indie" style, and it has his stamp all… Continue reading Film Review | Escape from New York
Malcolm McDowell offers a manic and bold performance in this otherwise messy and bloated historical drama-porno blend. Caligula follows the titular young emperor of Rome as he ascends the throne of the Republic. His Rome is one bathed in hedonism and wealth, and under his unfettered power he further degenerates it into one of debauchery. The backdrop… Continue reading Film Review | Caligula
Midnight Cowboy is a scuzzy and sleazy look at 1960s New York City. It stands out amongst films of its time because it shines a light on poverty and hopelessness, and yes, the fallacy of the American Dream. The title character, Joe Buck, is played naively by Jon Voight. He moves from small town Texas to… Continue reading Film Review | Midnight Cowboy
Mike Leigh's Hard Truths is several things, but it is most obviously a family-centric drama that focuses on several related people in their middle class lives in London. At its centre is Pansy, played by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. She is a fraught, complex character that obsessed over cleanliness and acts with anger towards her quiet husband and socially… Continue reading Film Review | Hard Truths
Everything comes together in A Complete Unknown; a finely crafted and reverent portrait of Bob Dylan, one of the 1960s’ undisputed icons of music. More than Dylan himself, the film explores the culture and times of New York City in the midst of the twentieth century, with all its upheaval and changing times. It portrays folk… Continue reading Film Review | A Complete Unknown
The usual political line is that "we don't negotiate with terrorists." What happens, then, when the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is required to fuck a pig on live TV to save the princess' life? That's what The National Anthem explores. It's an exercise in tension, unease, and horror. It's a compelling watch, not least because… Continue reading Film Review | Black Mirror: The National Anthem
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