6
… technically polished to an impressive degree, but the specific words, delivery, and ultimate thesis meant to give substance to the style is disappointingly lacking …
8.3
... real, intimate and irreversible.
7.5
…a singularly odd trilogy that manages to resonate over two and a half decades later.
Digger sees Tom Cruise’s Texan oil tycoon Digger Rockwell as a white cat stroking Dr. Evil-esque figure – the most powerful man in the world we are told – embarking
Jane Schoenbrun is a director who plunders their personal history more than most. The filmmaker – who is transfeminine, non-binary and uses they/them pronouns – leapt to fame with their
8.8
The film can look almost like a holiday postcard one moment and like a premonition of catastrophe the next … That contrast is ultimately what makes La Gradiva so powerful.
FilmInk salutes the work of creatives who have never truly received the credit that they deserve. In this installment: American director Joan Freeman, who helmed Streetwalkin’ and Satisfaction. Legendary B-movie
In this regular column, we drag forgotten made-for-TV movies out of the vault and into the light. This week: the 1980 true-life prison drama Escape, starring Timothy Bottoms, Kay Lenz,
8.2
… a seductive beauty of a psycho-sexual thriller …
You love ’em, he hates ’em! The Butcher carves up your favourite films, and this week, he applies his sharpened cleaver to director David Fincher’s 1999 Chuck Palahniuk adaptation Fight