Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #14-15 15 Apr 2022 Les intranquilles (2021): Joachim Lafosse has put together a movie that's not easy to endure - which is a compliment, in this case. Damien is an artist who lives together…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #13 (2022) 1 Apr 20221 Apr 2022 The Power of the Dog (2021): The "runner-up" to this year's Best Picture Oscar, the other Dog-titled movie this week is, in fact, pretty special. Jane Campion has put together…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #11-12 (2022) 25 Mar 2022 After Yang (2021): Kogonada's much expected follow-up to the excellent Columbus is an equally contemplative and beautiful movie. Set in the not-so-near but also not-so-distant future, a family has to…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #10 (2022) 12 Mar 2022 The Worst Person in the World (2021): Joachim Trier has finally provided a spiritual successor to one of my favourite movies, Reprise. This time, we are focused on Julie, a…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #7-9 (2022) 4 Mar 2022 Red Rocket (2021): Sean Baker has firmly established himself as one of the most interesting American directors of the last decade. His previous three movies had been exceptional (with Tangerine…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #5-6 (2022) 11 Feb 202211 Feb 2022 Luzzu (2021): In another directorial/writing debut, Alex Camilleri proposes a profoundly European movie - a tale of tradition, family and social policies. As the EU aims to repurpose Maltese fishermen…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #4 (2022) 28 Jan 2022 West Side Story (2021): I had never seen the original before going to watch Stephen Spielberg's (?!) reinterpretation of the renowned musical. A riff on Romeo & Juliet, it tells…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #3 (2022) 22 Jan 2022 Sideways (2004): This is one of those movies that aged as finely as its subject matter (wine) - or maybe it helps that I'm more of a mid-life crisis age…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #1-2 (2022) 14 Jan 202214 Jan 2022 Titane (2021): So how about something completely different? Julia Ducournau's follow up to Raw (2016) is, if not more polarizing, then at least more abstract. The plot is somewhat simple:…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #52 (2021) 31 Dec 2021 The French Dispatch (2021): Wes Anderson is one of the most stylistically distinctive directors out there - and you either love the style or love it much less than you…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #51 (2021) 24 Dec 2021 The Novice (2021): Lauren Hadaway's debut feature is what you'd expect to see if you zoomed into those rowing scenes during The Social Network and applied the Black Swan treatment…
Week In, Week Out Movies of the Week #50 (2021) 18 Dec 2021 Boiling Point (2021): Movies set in kitchens are...tight! But also exciting, dynamic and quite depressing, given the intensity so dutifully portrayed in each and every restaurant-based-story. Boiling Point conjures a…