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On the surface, Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is a story about two lighthouse keepers driven to insanity. However, nothing is at seems in this film. Like Eggers’ first film The Witch, The Lighthouse is a period piece. Set in the late 1890s, the film’s two main characters, Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe) and Thomas Howard (Robert […]
Since the pandemic has struck the film distribution model has been disrupted. Many companies have tried and failed to make a profit from the Premium Video-on-Demand. Warner Brothers have made the radical decision to release all their 2021 scheduled films in cinemas and HBO Max at the same time. Reactions to Warner Brothers’ has been […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean discuss the past, present, and future of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Wander Darkly is a conundrum of a film. A deep dive into the fracturing of a relationship, there’s a lot to like about it: strong leading performances from Sienna Miller and Diego Luna as the central couple along with interesting directorial choices from writer-director Tara Miele that lend the film a surrealist tinge that keeps […]
White Lie is a drama that has been well received by critics and was selected as one of the Top Ten Canadian Films at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Katie Arneson (Kacey Rohl) is a university student who has been faking she has cancer. Even her girlfriend, Jenn (Amber Anderson) believes she’s ill. Katie […]
Bad Times at the El Royale was Drew Goddard’s homage to film noir and ensemble casts. What he created was a film about people with deep, dark secrets coalescing at a single location. The El Royale Hotel is literally on the border of California and Nevada. On one faithful day in 1969, five people with […]
Kieran Freemantle and Jean Henegan discuss the Nostalgia Boom that is currently dominating Hollywood.
Nostalgia, Video Games, and Geek Culture have dominated the zeitgeist for over a decade. Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One smashed these ideas together and after it was a publishing success, led to it being adapted as a big-budget film by Steven Spielberg. In 2045 a lot of people escape their troubles by going into […]
A note about my history with Christmas romantic comedies: I’ve never really watched any of them. Why? Well, as I like to tell my friends, I can watch straight couples fall in love in humorous ways throughout the year – why would I care all that much if those romantic moments happen during the month […]
2020 has been a strange year due to the pandemic and had a massive effect on the film industry. Studios have been struggling to deal with it and on 17th December Warner Brothers have announced there are going to release Wonder Woman 1984 in cinemas and on HBO Max at the same time. This could […]