travel
Using found footage, Ignacio Ceroi builds a poignant dwelling on the contemporary nomad that beautifully conveys a man’s existential quest.
Tracks is a rather tedious ride that doesn’t possess any of the characteristics a rom com should have in order to soar.
Welcome Home has a melting pot of possibilities, preying on human fear, but much like its local creep, it skulks when it should attack.
With two likable stars playing unlikable characters, some witty repartee that borders on being too wordy, and an overuse of its finer points, Destination Wedding ends up getting lost in execution.
Hyperspace. Quantum physics. Faster than light. Have you heard terms like these flying around the…
Dark Tourist transcends its genre and explores what it actually means to travel, making for one of the most remarkable and profound travel shows ever made.
It’s been almost a decade since the release of Agnès Varda’s last film, and even though her newest entry, Faces Places, is only slight, it’s still completely worth the wait.
If you’re stuck at home and need something to watch, maybe Ibiza might be for you if you want to escape reality for a little while.
With its shallowness of character and its failed continuity of plot, Queen of the Desert is a film made as if to remind us of why we call films ‘pictures’, since the only good thing about the film is its mise-en-scenes.
A provoking film that resonates long after the credits have roles, The Strange Ones is an understated debut, with just enough external beauty and internal unease to keep us hopeful for their cinematic future.
With average performances, a weak script, and a lack of sentiment regarding the treatment of Native Americans, Hostiles isn’t going to make audiences want westerns to come back anytime soon.
Though captured beautifully, Somewhere Beautiful suffers from an unfocused script and rushed direction by Albert Kodagolian.
We have all watched a globetrotter movie at some point and thought “man, I want to do that!” Regardless of if you’re an avid adventurer or a couch potato, film can ignite that urge for discovery and make audiences want to grab life by the horns. Whilst most wanderlust movies satisfy a craving for exploration, I have realised that only a select few have the power to truly motivate viewers, making them want to escape their lives of comfort and luxury and replace it with blisters and exhaustion.
I first saw Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan in the early 2000s; it was a VHS copy playing on a big old JVC television that had a similar depth to a Toyota Aygo. I have since seen Saving Private Ryan a large number of times, but my reaction to its first 25 minutes remains unchanged, a reaction of shock, recoil and deep admiration for the people who executed this excellent, transformative piece of filmmaking. My knowledge of WW2 was minimal at this time, but I roughly knew the basics.
My visit to Auschwitz was more uncanny than overwhelming As a child my eyes used to always glaze over when my father watched what he gleefully called ‘boring black and white documentaries’, it was all he ever put on the television. Despite this, I still had an interest in World War 2, it was the most pivotal moment of the 20th century and so many films have been influenced by the event, however the Vietnam War films of the 70’s and 80’s garnered most of my attention in my early teens. By my late teens however, I found my once average interest burgeoning to the point where I was the one incessantly watching the boring black and white documentaries.
