Autobiographical films at their worst can be so literal and specific that rather than delivering something with universal appeal, instead can feel like a series
Category: Film review
Film review – Drive My Car (2021)
Cinema doesn’t always have to be cryptic or deeply symbolic to be meaningful, and sometimes the most effective thing a film can do is to
Film review – Nightmare Alley (2021)
From the very opening scene of Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley it is clear that lovers of film noir are about to experience something very
Film review – The French Dispatch (2021)
Auteur theory – the idea that a film is the sole artistic vision of the film’s director – has increasingly come under scrutiny in recent
Film review – Palazzo Di Cozzo (2021)
For many generations of Melbournians, the Italian Australian furniture salesman and television personality Franco Cozzo was an iconic figure. Whether it was through seeing his
Film review – The Velvet Underground (2021)
Todd Haynes’s narrative films have previously demonstrated just how aware the US filmmaker is of the way specific stylistic devices connect the past with the
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