After going big in What We Do In The Shadows, Kiwi comedic genius Jemaine Clement offers up a somewhat mellower performance which textures up this romantic dramedy. When you’ve seen enough of these kinds of movies, a point of difference like this counts for a lot.
This hilarious and devastating Swedish film is unlike any other movie ever made. It’s something along the lines of what you might imagine would result if Ingmar Bergman made a Final Destination movie.
As innumerable films have demonstrated in the past decade or so, there is an inherent lack of drama to the musical biopic. They usually come across as a cinematic Greatest Hits, a collection of famous events and songs with only nostalgia to drive them. This is not the case with Straight Outta Compton.
Undoubtedly the most influential American horror director ever, Wes Craven was at the forefront of three major film movements: the backwoods brutality horrors of the ’70s, the fantasy horrors of the ’80s and the self-aware horror comedies of the ’90s. In this blog for the Herald, I cite five films of his that absolutely must be seen.
Everest is the most Kiwi accent-infused blockbuster ever. Also, Jemaine Clement gets to use his own accent in his new movie People, Places, Things. To mark this turning point in the cinematic journey of our intangible gurgling, I decided to examine five notable attempts by (non-Australian) actors at capturing it for my Herald blog.
In this blog for the Herald, I mark the release of Hitman: Agent 47 by citing what I consider to be the five coolest hitmen in cinema history. John Wick is totally one of them. For the record, I consider Jules and Vincent from Pulp Fiction to be more general gangsters than hitmen. Plus are they really that cool?
After gazing a little too lovingly at his own navel in his previous film, the superlatively self-regarding This Is 40, director Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, Funny People) returns to form with this appealing comedy starring and written by nascent superstar Amy Schumer.
In this blog for the Herald, I mark the release of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. by picking five other TV shows I think should be movies. One of them is Fantasy Island. Another is Police Ten 7. There are three others. Does anyone else remember Automan?
Jake Gyllenhaal follows up the stellar Nightcrawler with another physically transformative performance, but he struggles to elevate Southpaw beyond the boxing movie clichés it entirely relies upon.
Functioning as both a reboot of, and a sequel to, the original 1983 Vacation movie, this relentlessly low-brow “family” comedy generates a decent chuckle here and there, but relies too heavily on gross-out gags to qualify as a genuine success.
