Like Jackie, inflected with playful nuanced brilliance, but once again Larrain's film exercise flattens flimsily, and even more swiftly and fatally.

Both films show a man in command of his form, and both have a transporting, satirical beauty delighting in the folkloric narrativity, flawed motives and gallant mechanics betwixt the personal and political, but too specified in a cumbersome chambered manner for the time being to capture the full-bodied worth of prior films.

Larrain is carving out a lively little…

A couple years ago, this film was firmly in my Top 50. I haven't seen the film for a couple years now, and by the time I did my top 100 Letterboxd list, this was no where in sight. I've decided this film requires a rewatch.

This film is a delight from Cronenberg. It mixes various little film influences together into a great little story. But the film wouldn't work without the acting. Mortensen gives one of his best ever…

Believe the hype.

Gravity has been earmarked in many ways as the 'next Avatar' for quite a while now, in terms of changing the game when it comes to the cinema experience. Plus, it comes with a strong pedigree. Children of Men was my film of the 2000s (actually my favourite film since my birth in '88), plus Cauron is a technically taut director capable at delivering transportive and magical universalist stories which appeal to the mainstream and art-house, young…