Movie: Spencer |
Released: November 2021 |
Rating: 3 stars |
Having recently watched the recorded version of the terrible new musical entitled Diana, we approached this movie with much hesitation. Being neither fans of Princess Diana, nor the British royal family, we had decided to give the TV series The Crown a miss, knowing it would be full of made up facts and situations about a bunch of privileged people and their overpublicised domestic shenanigans.
Movie: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain |
Released: October 2021 |
Rating: 3 ½ stars |
In what seemed like mini Cumberbatch Festival, just after watching Benedict Cumberbatch play a cowboy in Jane Campions “Power of the Dog”, we were delighted by this biography about the life of eccentric British illustrator Louis Wain in which he plays the titular role.
Movie: The Power of the Dog |
Released: December 2021 |
Rating: 4 stars>br>
Jane Campion hasn’t made a movie since Bright Star, which was released in 2009. She’s gone off making a few mini-series in the meantime with varied levels of success. So this return to the big screen has been much anticipated. Having seen the trailer at the cinema and were definitely keen to watch it.
Movie: Dear Evan Hansen
Released: September 2021
The conversion of successful stage musicals and plays into films has been a long-standing tradition with Hollywood, accounting for dozens of Best Picture Oscar winners over its history.
However, there has been a recent spate of controversial and disastrous efforts such as Cats, Rent, The Prom and the latest casualty, Dear Evan Hansen (DEH).
Following its recent release worldwide (on 23 September 2021), both critics and audiences have absolutely hated the movie.
Movie: Nitram
Released: September 2021
Rating: 3/5 stars
We approached this film with a keen interest, fully aware of the controversy and sensitivities around its delicate subject matter. It portrays the life of the convicted perpetrator of the tragic mass shooting incident in 1996 at Port Arthur in Tasmania. As someone who wasn’t living in Australia at the time of this incident, it was interesting for me to delve into it from a historical perspective. And a timely emergence of this movie at first seemed like a good way to become acquainted with this history.
Director: Chloé Zhao
Released: 2020 (USA)
Rating: 4/5 stars
After her husband dies in the rural town of Empire in Nevada, Fern—played by the incomparable Francis McDormand—sets off on the road in her van which serves as her mobile home. The gypsum plant the couple worked in has shut down in the economic downturn and the town is now depopulated and has all but disappeared. As a modern day nomad, Fern seeks temporary employment, shelter and social support of other similar nomads. Most of them are real characters playing themselves.
Director & Writer: Ben Sharrock
Released: 2021 (UK)
Rating: 4/5 stars
This was an unexpectedly poignant and provocative film which had us captivated throughout. Set on a fictional remote Scottish island, this film written and directed by Ben Sharrock tells the story of a motley group of asylum seekers awaiting the dreaded official results of their application for asylum.