Breakfast reviews on 2SER 107.3 – In The Fade & Oscars 2018
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GAME NIGHT
No one asked for a David Fincher parody and we really, really should have. Game Night is perhaps most brazen for skewering a film, The Game, that has not superseded pop culture so greatly as […]
RED SPARROW
Somewhere, in the bowels of every major studio, is a pile of screenplays that since late 1989 have slowly been gathering dust. On top of one of those piles was Red Sparrow. But for Charlotte […]
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
Probably what Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson were saying to themselves as filming drew to a close, Fifty Shades Freed was always going to cop it. The third and least satisfying of the long-awaited E. […]
BLACK PANTHER
You know what to expect with a Marvel movie, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be surprised. Hitting almost every regular beat of the multi-billion dollar franchise, Black Panther is the final iteration to be […]
THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX FAILS TO LAND
Are you a Star Trek fan? Then you aren’t missing much here. Dropped sensationally on Netflix the same day the trailer first aired at the Super Bowl, The Cloverfield Paradox, the third and by no […]
WHY LADY BIRD IS A TRIUMPH
There’s a beautiful moment at the beginning of Lady Bird where if you blink you’ll miss it. If you do it doesn’t matter, given Greta Gerwig’s latest bears too many to count. Christine, an imminent […]
PHANTOM THREAD
Have you ever seen a match stick house? They’re beautiful, quaint and instantly flammable. Watching Phantom Thread, itself a beautiful and considered construction, you can’t escape the niggling sensation that it’s a spark away from […]
I, TONYA
I, Tonya is a film about abuse and violence. There is also figure skating. And 80’s pop. Does that sound like an irreverent take on something that’s anything but irreverent? Do you get the feeling […]
MOLLY’S GAME
An aspiring make-or-breaker. The murky corridors that end in power. A fraught relationship with one’s dad. Aaron Sorkin fans won’t go home disappointed; the veteran writer and feature debut Director, unable to settle on one […]
THE COMMUTER: PRODUCTION MEETING
Fourth-time collaborators Liam Neeson & Jaume Collet-Serra had a bit of a break after the appropriately named Run All Night. It was time to make another movie. Liam: Jaume! Jaume: Liam! Liam: So, I was […]
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Director Guillermo Del Toro’s utterly beguiling ode to filmmaking’s most romantic era is unmissable cinema. Here combining the wonder of the most elusively mysterious monster fantasies with the loving spells which better characterised the unabashed […]
ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
Almost every film needs a bad guy. In the better ones, it may never be clear-cut. Starring Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg, Christopher Plummer, Charlie Plummer (no relation) and not Kevin Spacey, All The Money In […]
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Martin McDonagh wants to make you wince. He wants to make you uncomfortable and, most significantly, he wants to make you laugh. The In Bruges Director, less interested in a roundly cohesive plot or internal […]
COCO
A formidable return to form for Pixar, Coco is an utter delight. The studio’s first with an all-Latino voice cast (save Pixar stalwart and Cheers veteran John Ratzenberger), Coco centres on music-obsessed child Miguel (Anthony […]
THE POST, COCO, THE SHAPE OF WATER & THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
The Daily Movie Reviews on 2SER 107.3 – The Post, Coco, The Shape of Water & Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
THE POST
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Government secrets, a scandalous true story and indomitable journalism. You could easily think this Pentagon Papers retrospective is a lock for Best Picture. It isn’t. The Post, based […]
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
The Greatest Showman isn’t even trying to be believable, and that’s the point. A hodgepodge of real life, fictions and glorifying showmanship that would make P.T. Barnum proud, this kid’s musical-biopic (yes, it’s for the […]
BRIGHT
Bright is not the best film of 2017. Contrary to what you might have heard, it’s not one of the worst ones either. First and foremost, Bright has, for lack of a better word, a […]
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Every once in a while a film comes along that reminds you how good cinema can be. You may be hearing a lot about Call Me By Your Name now and in the future, whether […]
DARKEST HOUR
Gary Oldman wants an Oscar and that’s the only reason to watch this film. Recalling Winston Churchill’s ascendance as Prime Minister and the tense days immediately preceding Operation Dynamo and events better realised in the […]
REBEL IN THE RYE
With literary biopics back in vogue, a treatment of the departed J.D. Salinger and his seminal, sole novel was inevitable. Invariably, these flicks champion one or more strands of their subject’s life, extrapolating them over […]
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