Film Review: Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy is an affecting drama about a father coping with his son’s drug addiction that is equally intriguing as it is frustrating. It stars Steve Carrell as David Sheff, a successful journalist living in rural California. His son Nic (Timothée Chalamet) is a seemingly normal teenager who is getting ready to go to university but it becomes apparent that he is not just consuming alcohol and cannabisbut also cocaine, ecstasy, and crystal meth. A short stink in rehab appears to have positive results but, in a...

The Week in Movies: January 7th – 13th 2019

KinDir: Josh and Jonathan BakerI talk about the way films are marketed, or rather mis-marketed, a lot. Outside the cinemas, UK distribution is awash with films you might never notice have been released. Some you might have heard of, except they got released with new titles. Others, like Kin, have DVD art that makes them look like something completely different. At its heart, Kin is about brothers. 14 year old Eli (Myles Truitt) is adopted, and his older ex-con adoptive...

BANNED! AXE [1974]

The video nasties list isn’t jam packed with classics (though it features a fair few), but what it is, by accident rather than design, is a list of truly singular films. For better or worse, almost every film on the nasties list is an original, something born of passionate people scraping together the resources to make a movie, often falling into the horror genre or relying on gore because they knew that would be something they could use to sell...

Film Review: Stan and Ollie

Stan Laurel and Ollie Hardy had been performing together for almost 30 years when they arrived in the UK in 1954 for a theatre tour. Their glory days were clearly behind them but they put on a string of admirable performances despite their advanced years and failing health. They may no longer have been at the cutting edge of comedy but there was an undeniable spark that remained between them. Stan & Ollie follows them on this bittersweet tour as they try...

Film Review: Colette

A long cherished project for director Wash Westmoreland and his late husband and writing partner Richard Glatzer, Colette has been over fifteen years in the planning. It’s a bit disappointing, then, to find that it’s a fairly straightforward telling of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s (Keira Knightley) life during her marriage to Henry Gauthier-Villars, known both professionally and socially as Willy (Dominic West). During this time she wrote a series of Claudine novels, based on her own life but which, like the work...

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