Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #39 (2021) 1 Oct 2021 Bodied (2017): I have zero rapping affinities, but there's something inherently cool in this witty, irreverent and ambitious movie. Joseph Kahn didn't quite convince me with his previous feature, Detention,…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #38 (2021) 24 Sep 2021 Schumacher (2021): The docu takes us from Michael’s financially-stricken youth to his first title for Ferrari, before fast-forwarding through the next ten+ years. It makes some sense, because most of…
Week In, Week Out Schumacher (2021) 20 Sep 2021 Netflix just released a documentary about F1 legend and hero-of-my-childhood Michael Schumacher. Created by the trio of Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Vanessa Nöcker and Michael Wech, it has been received with a…
Week In, Week Out Movie of the Week #36-37 (2021) 17 Sep 202117 Sep 2021 CODA (2021): Not sure why I have a bit of a fascination with movies portraying the deaf community - while sometimes crude in their depiction, they tend to charm me.…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #35 (2021) 3 Sep 2021 In the Same Breath (2021): Nanfu Wang follows up the traumatizing One Child Nation with an infuriating documentary about the early days of the COVID pandemic. There's something in Wang's…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #34 (2021) 27 Aug 2021 Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021): Even I've read Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential, a thoroughly enjoyable read about his life as a chef in the 80s and 90s. Although…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #33 (2021) 23 Aug 2021 Riders of Justice (2020): Mads Mikkelsen is rocking the revenge drum in this surprising Danish movie: wife dies, army guy and absent father Markus returns home to take care of…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #30-32 (2021) 13 Aug 202113 Aug 2021 Pig (2021): I was under the false impression that Pig would be a John Wickian affair. In fact, it's pretty much the opposite of that, even though a cherished animal…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #29 (2021) 23 Jul 202123 Jul 2021 No Sudden Move (2021): Soderbergh might not be at his ingenious best, but he's still had his name on some inspired projects. NSM is an old-school crime/mob movie, with a solid…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #27-28 (2021) 17 Jul 202117 Jul 2021 Reprise (2006): I loved Joachim Trier's movie when I first saw it soon after its release, a perfect tale of dreams, ambition, friendship, romance, youth that rang so true at…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #26 (2021) 2 Jul 20212 Jul 2021 His House (2020): Most horrors movies have some kind of social theme to them, but the recent crop seems to be creating very convincing and hard-hitting allegories to the horrors…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #25 (2021) 25 Jun 202125 Jun 2021 The Kid Detective (2020): It's hard not to relate with the ageing kid detective of yesteryear, the embodiment of endless potential turned into a husk of a human being. Director/writer…
