Son of Saul Review
If war is hell, then the Holocaust must be its horrifying centrepiece. The atrocity was the nadir of modern civilisation and remains an occurrence almost impossible to truly comprehend. For all the attempted… Continue reading
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Jonny’s Favourite Films of 2015
With the Oscars on the horizon (Sunday), I thought I’d share my obligatory ‘best of the year’ list, albeit fashionably late in late February. The tricky element of compiling this list was in… Continue reading
Spotlight Review
Whilst covering the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1961, political theorist Hannah Arendt, herself a Jew who had fled Hitler’s Germany in 1933, coined the term “the banality of evil”.… Continue reading
The Hateful Eight Review
Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film features scores of eccentric dialogue, bouts of gratuitous violence, postmodernist tendencies, outlandish characters and a clear subversion of classic genres. In fact, you could call The Hateful Eight the… Continue reading
The Revenant Review
There are moments in The Revenant where the camera lens itself steams up with the husky breaths of its frontiersmen. It’s the final layer on a wondrous spectacle that’s enough to coax even… Continue reading
Joy Review
There are a fair few famous inventors worthy of getting the cinematic biopic makeover; Benjamin Franklin and his bright spark, the Wright brothers and their flying machine, or perhaps even the Lumière brothers… Continue reading
Carol Review
It’s funny how what can’t be fully expressed in endless words and countless lines can be encapsulated in the most seemingly insignificant of gestures. In Carol a fleeting hand on the shoulder, the… Continue reading