‘Woman of the Hour’ (2023) by Anna Kendrick.
“What are girls for?”
While the concept of a serial killer appearing so confidently on a dating TV show is harrowing enough to attract your attention, Anna Kendrick manages to weave a thrilling enough tale together in her directorial debut.
For true crime enthusiasts, Rodney Alcala was dubbed ‘The Dating Game Killer’ for his killing spree in the late 1970’s, and his appearance on national television during the height of his murderous…
'War Dogs' (2016) by Todd Phillips.
This one was leaving Amazon Prime, and after 8 year since I first watched it, I kind of boarded like a lazy bus passenger, back-of-the-upper-deck, eating junk and letting the lazy voiceover take me through the true story again.
I love Jonah in this, and just about stomach Teller. The backdrop of it all brings disbelief that it's actually how the US military operated, as two young stupidly ambitious men battle to make it…
‘1917’ (2019) by Sam Mendes. Motion picture history tends to highlight the devastation of World War II. 1914 - 1918 tends to be left aside. After making a failed WW1 short film at university, I’d done enough reading on The Great War to feel a closeness to that war - but I could never feel it. After a recent viewing of Peter Jackson’s ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ and my most visited museum being The Imperial War Museum - when Mendes…
‘Enter the Anime’ (2019) by Alex Buronova. A waste of a topic. A scatty throughline which basically revolves around the presenter not knowing how to make a documentary, a completely confused visual style and wasted interviews with masters of the art form. How Not to Make a Documentary 101.
