Shirley MacLaine is so, so charming in this. I think the whole film falls apart if you don't root for the protagonist of this story, so fortunately MacLaine's portrayal of Charity makes you desperately want the best for her.
It's incredibly bittersweet, but has such a note of hopefulness that you come out feeling warm and optimistic. So keen to watch the rest of Fosse's films!
A long time work of an absolute master in his craft, Mad God is everything I'd expected it to be and so much more. It presents a world of constant destruction, descent, decay, repetition, "too-muchness", and unflinching violence, that's at once totally alien and all too reflective of my own nightmares and deeply human fears. It's that constant aching reminder that infinite horrible acts have come before us, and more still are yet to come as we find ourselves a…
The responses to Godzilla vs Kong are likely to vary depending on whether it was viewed at home from a streaming platform or in a theatre. The reason for this is that Adam Wingard has put together the most blockbustery blockbuster to fill the screen in a very long time. The film cuts out almost all of the narrative busywork that goes along with something as bombastic as this, focusing only on the barest of essentials to drive the story…
This movie was my Anton Ego moment for film this year. By this, I mean that it resonated with me in such a profound way that it rocked me to my core and made me reconsider why the art that I love means to much to me. In the case of Into the Spider-Verse, I had to reconcile my love for both film and comic books in the same experience, a feeling which left me shaken through much of the…
