Movie Review: The Journey Ditches Ideology in Favor of Sentimentality

The Journey  isn’t a “bad” film.  Neither is it particularly good. The film tells the kinda-sorta true story of avowed-political-enemies-turned-best-of-friends Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) and Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and serves as a showcase for its two leads. Spall in…

Movie Review – ‘Flutter’

Stan stands alone at the back of the greyhound track, her eyes bright and shiny, her lips red and pouty. She croons and cranes her head from side-to-side like a cross between a jazz flapper and femme fatale; half Betty…

The Film Canon: Black Narcissus (1947)

High above the world nestled on an impossible cliff, madness comes to Mopu. Once a harem, this decayed palace of pleasures and perversities bears witness to new masters: a group of Anglican nuns who seek to establish a school and…