How to Rank a Perfect Filmography, or Happy Birthday, Quentin!
With the recent news of Quentin Tarantino allegedly setting his sights on another movie circulating on the mouths of film bloggers, tweeters and other denizens of the widespread online film community, the customary conversations regarding the quality of his filmmaking output have also arisen in the same circles. Now, I have never been particularly fond of…
65 (2023)
Imagine you wake up from your cryostasis, jolted into lucidity by the ship computer telling you a collision is imminent. You sober up rapidly and, propelled by a sense of duty mixed with well-trained reflexes, you make your way to the cockpit with a hope of successfully navigating through a swarm of asteroids. You fail.…
Scream VI (2023)
I think it goes without saying that most franchises, especially in the genre of horror, tend to get progressively more braindead as time goes on and by the time you see a number six or seven to the right of the title, chances are that originality had long been defenestrated in favour of keeping the…
What’s Love Got to Do With It? (2023)
Although I do my best to remain eclectic in my film-watching, some genres I tend to not so much avoid but rather omit based on seeking entertainment elsewhere. You might call it an implicit genre bias that leads me naturally and subconsciously to steer away from certain kinds of movies without necessarily engaging in active…
Creed III (2023)
The Rocky series remains one of the arguably most interesting film franchises in Hollywood history. From its New Hollywood beginnings and earning acclaim for Sylvester Stallone on the back of his well-deserved Oscar for writing to evolving into pastiche in the 80s, descending into obscurity, experiencing a brief revival and eventually coming back under the…
Nostalgia Sequels, Dinosaur Cloning and the Diminishing Returns of Dopamine Chasing
‘Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should’, says Ian Malcolm – all clad in black like a nerd rock star – to the congregation of genetic engineers swooning over their wondrous achievement of cloning long-extinct dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg’s classic Jurassic Park. The…
Uncut Gems Podcast (February 2023 Round-Up)
As we are about to close the books on February 2023, the time has also come to have a bit of a look back and summarize all of the many recording efforts we have made over at the Uncut Gems Podcast.
Cocaine Bear (2023)
It honestly feels as though I was about to repeat myself because on the occasion of writing up my thoughts on Plane I managed to weave it around the concept of February being a singular time in the year where you can get to see movies that normally would head straight either to your local…
M. Night Shyamalan’s Cinema of Religious Environmental Activism
If there is anything we can say with absolute certainty about Knock at the Cabin, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest directorial effort, it is that it is incredibly familiar and immediately invites reviewers to see it in the context of the man’s previous work. Indeed, Shyamalan seems to be a creature of habit compelled to ‘go…
Plane (2023)
The first few months of any given year are commonly seen as a dumping ground for movies that studio executives don’t seem to hold too much hope for, such as stand-alone non-franchised action thrillers, horrors that just about missed the Halloween window, one or two rom-coms to mark Valentine’s Day, and prestige-adjacent dramas that weren’t…
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