Week In, Week Out

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 his daughter, just as some middle-aged nerds/scientists turn up to tell him that it’s statistically near impossible for the accident that caused his wife death… Read more

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 is stolen by some nefarious people at the start of the movie. Starring Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin, it’s a movie about connection… Read more

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 script and an exceptional cast – Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, David Harbour or Amy Seimetz, to name just a few. What’s more, they do… Read more

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 the time. Rewatching it the other day (a reprise, if you will), a lot of the things I loved were still there, as Erik, Philip… Read more

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 of various social traumas. His House is about a refugee couple that is provided a home in the UK, but adapting to “normal life” and… Read more

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 Evan Morgan takes a simple idea that could easily have turned into something ridiculous and miraculously keeps finding the perfect nuance to allow the realness… Read more

Automated podcast here. Bo Bunrham: Inside (2021): This month’s top performance on Netflix is Bo Burnham’s one-man-show created during the pandemic. I am inherently skeptical of social media stars turned mainstream, but Burnham is pretty close to swaying me – which, I’m certain, offers him the peace of mind he’s been missing during lockdown. Instantly… Read more

Automated podcast here. Little Fish (2020): A sci-fi romance is usually a tasty treat and Little Fish is no exception. Starring Olivia Cooke and Jack O’Connell, it’s set in a world where a virus destroys people’s memories and their love story is a bit of a tragic mess. Playing around with the timeline, Tomlin’s adaptation… Read more

Automated podcast here. The Duke of Burgundy (2014): Peter Strickland wowed me with his 2018 feature In Fabric, but his best received movie was this surreal relationship drama starring Sidse Babett Knudsen and Chiara D’Anna. The two play a pair of lovers with a tendency towards roleplay and domination, but the story really plays to… Read more

Automated podcast here. My Octopus Teacher (2020): This year’s best documentary Oscar winner tells a touching story about the connectedness of nature and our ability to draw from that. Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed worked with Craig Foster, filmmaker and diver, in capturing the latter’s journey of rediscovery within the kelp forest, situated in the… Read more

Tropic Thunder (2008): To be fair, I didn’t really rewatch the movie – I rewatched the director’s commentary, which is definitely a first for me. Tropic Thunder itself is a phenomenally fun ride that most likely would not be made again in this day and age, but it stands out as one of the best… Read more

Another Round (2020): I shied away from watching Thomas Vinterberg’s Academy Award nominated movie because of it’s predictably…sobering subject matter – “Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.”. As expected, the “experiment” creates more problems than it… Read more