REVIEW: Charlie’s Angels (2019)
Following the recent trend of rebooting or continuing classic franchises with women-led casts, such as in Ghostbusters (2016) and Ocean’s 8 (2018), Charlie’s Angels is the latest series to undergo a makeover. Unlike the others, it has always been led by women. But with a…
LFF 2019: Vivarium
From the moment that Vivarium’s opening bright red credits flash onto the screen à la Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, you know you’re in for a wild, unpredictable ride. When young couple Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) and Gemma (Imogen Poots) arrive at an estate agency looking to…
LFF 2019: The Report
In December 2014, 525 pages of a 6,725-page report on the CIA’s post-9/11 use of torture on terror suspects were released. The rest of the original, unredacted report remains classified, but Scott Z. Burns’ political docudrama The Report sheds light on the investigation, spearheaded by…
REVIEW: The Goldfinch (2019)
Adapting an almost 800-page book for the big screen screams ‘ambition’ more than anything. Sure enough, John Crowley’s adaptation of Donna Tartt’s 2013 novel The Goldfinch is nothing if not ambitious. The film opens on a grown-up Theo Decker (Ansel Elgort) contemplating suicide. His mother…
The Humanity of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2018)
When I first watched Roar Uthaug’s Tomb Raider, what impressed me most was Lara Croft’s intelligence and physical strength. She can overpower men twice her size, climb up a cliff face with no equipment, and solve riddles faster than I could even read them. But…
REVIEW: The Current War (2019)
A century before ‘AC/DC’ became the moniker of a certain Australian rock band, the acronym was synonymous with American pioneers George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison and their conflicting ideas for electricity distribution. While the former was keen to explore the potential of high voltage alternating…
EIFF 2019: Them That Follow
As if religious fanaticism wasn’t frightening enough, now it’s got snakes! Up in the Appalachian mountains, a church pastor’s teenage daughter, Mara (Alice Englert), attempts to hide her unexpected pregnancy from her ultra-religious community. Their attitudes on marriage, sex, and pretty much any issue involving…
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