Last December two different genre movies with Meryl Streep as the main character came out. In ‘The Prom’, Streep plays an attention-seeking, extroverted singer and dancer—very much in contrast to her role as a quiet, reserved writer in ‘Let them all talk’.
Film editor Oliver Weir gives you the best double bills for your next pandemic movie night. [Posters merged by Elizabeth Ferial]
Film contributor Eva Borras reports favourably on Stephen Soderbergh's film, Contagion
Film contributor Eva Borras reviews the new Ron Howard film about a boy struggling to escape a life of poverty in the US
Film editor Oliver Weir discusses Breathless (or A bout du souffle), the 1960 French classic film, as it celebrates its 60th anniversary
Film editor Oliver Weir brings you David Fincher's greatest hits
Film contributor Eva Borras reviews Soul, Pixar's new release to streaming service Disney+: a movie that follows jazz-loving middle school teacher Joe Gardner on his twisty, out-of-body journey
Film editor Oliver Weir shows you how to see a great film, completely free. This week he watched L.A. Confidential, the gritty character study of three LAPD police officers
Film editor Oliver Weir looks back on the classic film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring about a monk's apprentice who lives on a pond in rural Korea
Film Editor Oliver Weir discusses the modern classic 'The Act of Killing' about the perpetrators of the 1965/66 Indonesian massacres which took the lives of over 1,000,000 communists, farmers, union members, intellectuals, and ethnic Chinese. Director Joshua Oppenheimer asks the perpetrators to recreate the heinous
Directed By: Luis Buñuel; Salvador Dalí Year of Release: 1929 My brief defence of abstract movies and surrealism is predicated on them genuinely seeking to capture a feeling or convey some truth. While this generally holds for surreal movies, there are of course exceptions. Perhaps the most famous of these
Why should we bother with surreal film? Film editor Oliver Weir argues the case for this often misunderstood subgenre by way of the first Lynchian masterpiece: Eraserhead