reviews
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Furiosa and Hud I already reviewed Furiosa – go read that! I also watched another movie on Monday, Hud. Starring Paul Newman as the title character, this is another masterful ‘post-western’ of the 1960s, an examination of how the world just isn’t any place for that old cowboy romanticism anymore.…
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By Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – The Magnificent Seven This remake of the Japanese classic Seven Samurai is a strong case study in the fundamental similarity of the Western and Samurai genres, as well as their key differences. Both films follow a mismatched group of seven warriors who come together to protect a poor village from…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Toni Erdmann There’s a wonderful specificity in the humour of this film. Despite covering an absurd breadth of settings and scenarios in it’s near-three hour runtime, it’s all firmly centred on the clashing personalities of the two leads. Ines is obsessed with control, raging against a lack of it in…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – On The Waterfront On The Waterfront is a feature-length parable about standing up for yourself in the face of social pressure. Protagonist Terry Malloy has spent his whole life following the orders of his older brother and, by extension, his brother’s corrupt union boss. Terry has done this because it’s…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Challengers Sometimes a movie just works. Challengers is a deceptively simple story of a love triangle gone wrong, so confident in the storytelling that it begins with the climax, a grudge match of professional tennis that we are regularly thrust back into between vignettes of the characters pasts. There is…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Slow week guys. College huh? Yeah this guy gets it. Monday – That They May Face the Rising Son A new Irish film about a writer and his wife living an idyllic life in the countryside, the story suffers from one major flaw, that being, the leads are incredibly boring. Neither of…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Man this is late huh. College got me like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHH anyway check out this video I made instead of doing my documentary project. Monday – Punch-Drunk Love and She’s Gotta Have It Monday wound up featuring two movies about love, if very different forms of it. Punch-Drunk Love follows a lonely man…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Apologies for the late update, it’s a very busy couple of weeks at the minute. This weekly update is going to be as quick and painless as I can make it, just a quick thought on each film. Monday – Affliction Schrader always wallows in guilt and shame, getting dangerously into the…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Clan of the White Lotus The kung-fu film, beyond being the home of some of the greatest fight choreography ever put to film, is also a genre primarily concerned with one central idea: overcoming adversity. The average kung-fu hero is usually poor, oppressed, an outcast in society, who is faced…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Hannah Takes the Stairs Mumblecore is a genre identifier that sends shivers down my spine. When I hear it, one word comes to mind, that being cheap. Mumblecore is a genre born from material circumstances, utilised by filmmakers with no budget, equipment or often experience, at least starting out. It…
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