Cinema Paradiso is about many things; the formative years of a young boy and how he grows up in a single-parent family to become a successful film director; the relationship between a… Continue reading "Cinema Paradiso (1988)."
Hunters is the new series from Amazon Prime and stars Logan Lerman as Jonah Heidelbaum, a Jewish teenager living with his grandmother in 1970s New York. Following his grandmother’s murder,… Continue reading "Hunters (2020)."
On February 24th, Katherine Johnson (nee Goble) died at the age of 101. Her death made headlines all over the world, attesting to her importance in the world of science… Continue reading "Hidden Figures (2016): In memory of Katherine Johnson, August 28th 1918 – February 24th 2020."
Locke and Key is the new, high-concept, spooky fantasy show from Netflix and is based on the comic book series written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez. The… Continue reading "Locke and Key (2020)."
Somehow Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote exists. Almost twenty years after the director’s catastrophic first attempt to make the film, which was brought down by an unwell… Continue reading "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)."
At almost ninety years of age, most of us would probably be happy just to be alive and in possession of our faculties, but amazingly Clint Eastwood is still out… Continue reading "Richard Jewell (2019)."
Two men start to go mad when a storm maroons them at the lighthouse they’ve been manning for the past month. Whether it’s the mythic, allegoric depiction of the two… Continue reading "The Lighthouse (2019)."
In Episode 42 of The Film ‘89 Podcast, Skye is joined by a man who is now Film ‘89’s official Californian representative as well as a boxing expert, cinephile and… Continue reading "The Film ‘89 Podcast Episode 42 – 1917 (2019)."
Amsterdam was abuzz with excitement when The Promise of Pisa (directed by Norbert ter Hall) was released a few months ago. It’s an adaptation of a novel-cum-memoir written by a… Continue reading "The Promise (2019)."
The rise and fall of Shia LaBeouf has been akin to that of many child actors who found it hard to transition to adulthood. With access to not only the… Continue reading "Honey Boy (2019)."
