Film Editorial
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Burning
South Korean director Lee Chang-Dong’s latest picture is an oblique but bewitching thriller adapted loosely from a short story by Japanese writer Haruki Murakmi. Jong-su (Yoo ...
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Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Adapted from writer Lee Israel’s memoir of the same name, this wildly enjoyable and intelligent comedy drama showcases a wondrous straight acting debut from Melissa McCarthy. ...
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Green Book
This amiable comedy drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between a racist Italian American bouncer and an African American musician, based on a true story, may so...
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On the Basis of Sex
This rote and drearily dutiful biopic focuses on the formative years of liberal hero and Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from her enrolment as a young Jewish woman...
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The animated Dragon trilogy wraps up with this dramatically satisfying and disarmingly stirring conclusion. Norse nerdy hero Hiccup has succeeded his father as ruler of the Vi...
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If Beale Street Could Talk
For the follow-up to his melancholy masterpiece ‘Moonlight’, writer-director Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’, but what should be an ideal mat...
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Boy Erased
Australian actor-turned-director Edgerton’s second film is a heartfelt but uninvolving adaptation of gay writer Garrard Conley’s memoir of growing up in a conservative Christi...
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The Favourite
Greek director Lanthimos’s third English-language picture, a rollicking and bawdy period piece set in the early 18thcentury, sports more than a whiff of Peter Greenaway’s pois...
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Monsters and Men
This hard-hitting but clumsily didactic Brooklyn-set drama takes its inspiration from two real life incidents that occurred in 2014: one, the shooting of young man Eric Garner...
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Stan and Ollie
After all the glitz and flash of the festive season, this undemanding but appealingly heartfelt biopic, which traces the twilight career of much-loved comedy duo Laurel and Ha...
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Beautiful Boy
Adapted from two memoirs by San Francisco journalist David Sheff, this earnest and slightly dull drama chronicles the toil on a family when the eldest son becomes addicted to ...
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Destroyer
Director Kusama’s dour crime drama has its moments, as well as a typically committed performance from Nicole Kidman, but is uneven and pretentious. We first encounter LAPD det...
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Mozes and the Firstbone
Dadcore (Burger Records) - I first caught wind of this Dutch band back in 2013 with their really rather good self-titled debut album and their sophomore release does more of t...
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