Based on the debut novel of the same name by Canadian writer Iain Reid, I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS is eccentric and unsettling. Charlie Kaufman delves deep into themes those familiar with his work will have grown accustomed to, including identity crisis, and the meaning of life. The fluidity of time is a highlight and … Continue reading I’m Thinking of Ending Things →
The premise of GUEST OF HONOUR is fairly simple, yet feels edited with a butcher’s cleaver; it becomes too jumbled and there is no catharsis at the end.
Twenty-five years on from its original release, Johnny Owens looks at Mike Leigh’s NAKED: “quite possibly the most important film to come out of this country since its release”.
Another year, another Terry Gilliam slice of imaginative dystopian hell: THE ZERO THEOREM still feels a bit humdrum for a director who is a visionary at his best.
We may have reached one limit to what Benedict Cumberbatch can do – and it was beginning to look as if there weren’t any, writes Keith Braithwaite.
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