Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #36 #37 (2020) 19 Sep 202019 Sep 2020 In Fabric (2018): Coming across a movie as gorgeous as Peter Strickland's In Fabric is a rare thing. It being a complex B-movie about a killer dress and yet engaging…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #34 #35 (2020) 8 Sep 202010 Sep 2020 Frankenstein (1931): Movies of the 30s are an acquired taste, with their post-silent-era narrative and acting eccentricities. Yet, Frankenstein feels almost modern in this context, perhaps because a non-speaking monster…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #32 #33 (2020) 19 Aug 2020 Sweetheart (2019): I kinda feel that the best movies at expressing deep rooted discrimination, abuse and inequality have been horror movies. There's something about clever allegories, subtle nuances and metaphors…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #31 (2020) 7 Aug 2020 My Name is Tanino (2002): Way before Paolo Virzi did La pazza gioia (2016) or Il capitale umano (2013), he directed My Name is Tanino, a movie that stands out…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #29 #30 (2020) 31 Jul 2020 The Russian Five (2018): With all my experience of hockey coming about during that one edition of NHL I played relentlessly in the early 2000s, I still look upon the…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #28 (2020) 17 Jul 202022 Jul 2020 Relic (2020): Whether you are into horror movies or not, Relic is bound to creep you out and send you into a spiral of dark thoughts. Natalia Erika James' movie,…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #27 (2020) 11 Jul 202011 Jul 2020 Sorry We Missed You (2019): Even in his 80s, director Ken Loach is razor sharp in his critique of social disequilibrium and shortcomings. The movie follows up on the exceptional…
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…
