Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #25 #26 (2020) 3 Jul 20206 Jul 2020 Babyteeth (2019): Shannon Murphy's debut feature is a heartbreaking ride in the realm of lost youth and boundless exuberance. You never quite know where it's going to go, taking a…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #23 #24 (2020) 20 Jun 202020 Jun 2020 The Sweet Hereafter (1997): Reading about Ian Holm's passing instantly brought me back to one of my favourite films, Atom Egoyan's Sweet Hereafter. With a powerful performance from Holm and…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #22 (2020) 5 Jun 202020 Jun 2020 Color Out of Space (2019): A synaesthetic horror movie unlike any other you've seen, Color Out of Space scores one for team "style over substance". Taking the aliens via meteorite…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #20 #21 (2020) 27 May 202020 Jun 2020 The Matrix (1999): God, it's been a minute, hasn't it? Nobody on Tik Tok was alive when this movie saw its release 21 years ago. Thankfully, The Matrix fares well…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #19 (2020) 15 May 202020 Jun 2020 Driveways (2019): A perfectly pitched and executed story of family and belonging, Driveways is a classic feel-good movie infused with just the right amount of melancholy. It's a wonderful thing…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #18 (2020) 8 May 202020 Jun 2020 Hustlers (2019): I wasn't sure about Hustlers, which I thought might be another Widows (2018), i.e. an Ocean's 11 template movie with all female leads that everyone liked, but me.…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #17 (2020) 30 Apr 202020 Jun 2020 What a week, guys. What a week...But now, here are some movies. John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018): I guess you can call me a McCain, in as…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #16 (2020) 23 Apr 202020 Jun 2020 In the Line of Fire (1993): In what feels like a John Grisham/Tom Clancy political thriller of the 90s (but is actually an original screenplay by Jeff Maguire), I was…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #15 (2020) 16 Apr 202020 Jun 2020 Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020): It's difficult for any movie to break new ground re: teenage pregnancies and abortions. That being said, NRSA finds the perfect pacing to let the pain…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #13 #14 (2020) 8 Apr 202020 Jun 2020 American Factory (2019): The Academy Award winner for best documentary feature, Steven Bognar's and Julia Reichert's movie is at times exactly what you would expect, while proving surprisingly surreal in…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #12 (2020) 26 Mar 202020 Jun 2020 Chained for Life (2018): Ironically, in a week full of familiar movies, familiar stories, familiar characters, Chained for Life is the exact opposite. It defies all expectations and brings to…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #11 (2020) 19 Mar 202020 Jun 2020 The Lost City of Z (2016): What better way to spend social isolation, than to watch a lush jungle adventure with Charlie Hunnam? The movie had been on my watchlist…
