This film incredibly tackles multiple issues without sledgehammering any of them. The story follows the life of Chiron, a quiet, young black man living in Miami, as he struggles to find his place in the world. Moonlight has been nominated for eight Academy Awards (results of which are in two days, as of this review)…
Tag: drama
Review: High-Rise
It is Society Metaphor: The Movie! Doctor Robert Laing is a brain surgeon who moves into a brand new set of advanced high-rise buildings. Little does he know that the people living in his particular building are about to go through social upheaval and class wars similar to the End of Days. Did a horny…
Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Alongside The Truman Show, this is probably one of my favourite Jim Carrey movies, principally because it isn’t a “Jim Carrey Movie”. A lonely man meets a lonely woman, but when their relationship turns into fights and arguments she has him erased from her memory. When he is embittered to do the same… he immediately…
Review: La La Land
La La Land is a curious blend of the old art of Hollywood musical and contemporary romance movie, and somewhere along the way it hit me really hard! Two people looking to live the dream and excel creatively, one a jazz pianist and the other a budding actress, stumble into one another and embark on a…
Review: Split
Director M. Night Shyamalan has had a lot of disgrace in the past, but Split was a decent movie! James McAvoy plays a man with a multiple-personality disorder who kidnaps three young girls for unknown reasons. The girls, while fighting for their freedom, discover their captor has twenty-three distinct personalities inside him. This film, by…
Review: Silence
Well, this was sobering. But I’m not sure what I think of it… In the 1600s two young Catholic priests journey to Japan, seeking their mentor who has apparently been converted from the faith during his work as a Christian Missionary. They journey however, becomes more like a battle of beliefs. Director Martin Scorsese is…
Review: The Handmaiden
A twisting, turning erotic thriller with a perfect screenplay and great performances. A Korean con artist wants to work his way into marriage with a rich Count’s niece solely to become wealthy himself. To do so he hires a young girl to become the noble woman’s maid to help setup his romance and convince her…
Review: Passengers
Star power alone can’t push this slow moving spaceship. An ark of five thousand stasis-sleeping passengers, on a trip to a new planet to call home, suffers from damage to its systems, waking two people while there’s still ninety years of travel remaining. They find the task of getting to know each other complicated with saving…
Review: Swiss Army Man
Apparently I am watching all the weird films I missed this year! Hank is marooned on an island after his boat is caught in a storm and moments before he is about to take his own life he sees a body on the beach. Through sheer determination to have a friend and a lot of…
Review: Anomalisa
What an incredibly moving, compelling and strange experience this was. Michael Stone is a writer successful in the field of retail and sales but is suffering from a crippling sense of apathy and loneliness in what to him is an incredibly mundane existence. But could all of that be about to change when he visits…