Cinema Review – Samaritan: The perennial possibility…
There has always been a roughness and uncertainty in the world, but over the last few years, from the Global Financial Crisis to…
Cinema Review – Oh So Very English…
2022 is the centenary of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, the first cinematic riff on the Bram Stoker-Dracula-Vampire mythos. I’ve written on Nosferatu, but a…
Cinema Review – Elvis by Luhrmann out…
Most music biopics dodge the mystical aspect of music in favour of something biographical, historical, and political. Not Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, however, in…
Cinema Review – A Place in Space-Time
Science fiction is the quintessential modern genre. Man’s mastery over matter, humanity’s overreach regarding human nature, only become possible subjects of story when…
Cinema Review – Dominion is more of…
Genetic and related biotechnologies have the potential fundamentally to rewrite the relationship between humanity and nature – or, at least, they give that…
