[ad_1] “Let’s make something shocking and hard-hitting. How do we do it? Oh, let’s make an unusual love story. That will get us eyeballs.” I really hope this wasn’t the aim of the makers when they stepped out to make Safed, a film as bland as this one. The final result is a product that … Read more
[ad_1] “Terror is nothing but justice… severe, prompt, inflexible justice.” So begins Napoleon, promising us a political film resonant with one of the most pressing debates of our times, even if the setting is the turmoil following the 1789 French Revolution. However, Ridley Scott, a director of big men and big spectacles, is not interested … Read more
[ad_1] Adam Sandler voices a curmudgeonly (but chaotic) lizard named Leo in Netflix’s new animated movie, co-directed by his old collaborator Robert Smigel. They previously worked together on a couple of those very successful Hotel Transylvania movies, whose zany humour Leo is also laced with. Neither a children’s movie nor something that their parents can … Read more
[ad_1] At one point in the new Netflix film Rustin, the titular character — civil rights activist Bayard Rustin — is described as ‘a shark trapped in a shot glass’. The architect of the 1963 March on Washington, best known outside the United States as the venue for Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a … Read more