Queer
Daniel Craig stars in Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous adaptation of the cult William Burroughs novel ‘Queer’, a trippy erotic fever dream that mostly hits the target, despite some narrative flaws.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 3, 2024 | Festivals, Venice 2024 |
Daniel Craig stars in Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous adaptation of the cult William Burroughs novel ‘Queer’, a trippy erotic fever dream that mostly hits the target, despite some narrative flaws.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 2, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Venice 2024 |
Starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature ‘The Room Next Door’ is a minor-key but quietly profound meditation on love and death, pain and glory.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 1, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Venice 2024 |
Ageing bad-boy auteur Harmony Korine’s latest experimental art-punk feature ‘Baby Invasion’ is a visually impressive but ultimately hollow exercise in jaded hipster nihilism.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 31, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Venice 2024 |
French writer-director duo Zoran and Ludovic Boukherma go back to the 1990s with their operatic but flawed coming-of-age saga ‘And Their Children After Them’, adapted from a prize-winning novel.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 30, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2025, Venice 2024 |
A horse racing champion embarks on a surreal gender-blurring ride in Luis Ortega’s bumpy but stylish, colourful, enjoyably goofy comedy thriller ‘Kill The Jockey’.
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