Donald Sutherland
When Mr. Harrigan dies, a teen puts his smartphone in his pocket and when he leaves his dead friend a message, he is shocked to get a text back.
While beautiful to look at, The Undoing struggles to say something compelling as it’s more interested in amplifying the melodrama.
Ad Astra is not without its flaws, but Gray’s science-fiction endeavor is ultimately one of the best films of the year.
While Ad Astra is no doubt visually stimulating, ultimately Gray’s film is a meandering lifeless existential entity that overly emphasises on simplicity.
The Leisure Seeker isn’t a bad film, but its sluggish pace, inexplicable changes between the film and the book, and some corny dialogue keep it from being great.
Guest author Brooke Whipple analyzes the representation of gender in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and how it foreshadows humanity’s destruction.
In the days of the revisionist Western, sometimes a throwback to the simple pleasures of the genre’s oldest delights are all that are needed. The only problem with revisiting old cliches is that no amount of nostalgia or charm can make them feel original again, and if performed without either, it comes across as laboured box-ticking in order to fulfil genre requirements. Forsaken unfortunately is the latter, possessing an initial kitsch charm that wears thin quickly when it transpires the film has no unique tricks up its sleeve.
