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Greek filmmaker, Yorgos Lanthimos, reunited with Emma Stone to retell Alasdair Gray’s 1992 absurdist novel on the big screen, featuring Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe, likewise. We follow the adventures of a female, Frankenstein monster. Namely, Bella Baxter: a young, pregnant woman who committed suicide due to an unhappy marriage and the pressures to become…

“Prometheus stole fire from the Gods. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity.” Without a doubt the most anticipated film of the year, last month saw the release of Christopher Nolan’s latest feature film, ‘Oppenheimer’. Nolan set out to radicalize cinema. By combining his metaphysical, existential cinematic style with something as…

Last month saw the release of Wes Anderson’s latest feature film, ‘Asteroid City’. Over the years, Anderson has developed himself quite the cult following and, with success of ‘The French Dispatch’ (2021), Asteroid City was, without a doubt, one of the most anticipated films of 2023. Despite not being a huge Wes Anderson fan myself, I’ve been told that Asteroid City is “Wes…

Beau is Afraid is a Surrealist Tragicomedy, directed by Ari Aster. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Aster’s third feature film has been highly anticipated after the success of Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019). Without a doubt, Aster has developed an idiosyncratic cinematic style that is far from the derivative Horror Hollywood churns out these days. His films are trendy and, with the…

The 2022 Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness is a satirical drama directed by Swedish filmmaker Reuben Östlund. Triangle of Sadness follows a Three- act structure, connected by Supermodel couple, Yaya (Charlbi Dean) and Carl (Harris Dickinson), navigating the superficialities of an online career and gender roles in a progressive, Gen Z society. Östlund writes with a definite socio-political scorn; an…

Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) is the first German remake of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel, “Im Westen nichts Neues” (“Nothing New in the West”). Remarque’s novel was radical at its time of publication. It became one of the first internationally best-selling novels and was subsequently translated into more than 50 languages. It became known as…

As we approach the 95th Academy Awards, Martin McDonagh looks towards nine possible recognitions. His tragic tale of loneliness and mortality in “The Banshees of Inisherin” reunites Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, after McDonagh’s 2008 acclaim “In Bruges”.  Pádraic (Farrell) and Colm (Gleeson) are best friends. That is until one day, when Pádraic calls for Colm to go…

The Whale is a psychological drama, directed by Darren Aronofsky, based off Samuel D. Hunter’s play of the same name. Brendan Fraser stars as Charlie: an online English professor who has retreated to a life of reclusion, locking himself within the confines of his apartment due to his morbid obesity. Tackling a range of modern morale…