Sacred bleu! Wes Anderson goes all out in this pretty self-indulgent feast of art nouveau colour palettes and Breton shirts with the help of his usual quirky ensemble cast (aka. all his pals and some younger cool actors). It lacks alot of the zany comedy chops found in his more recent films, in favour of a slightly surrealist anthology format told through his usual M.O of clinical cross-sectioning and symmetrical camera work - which he pretty much pinched from early…

The blending of dark as stout humour and Greek tragedy is a bit of trademark from theatre boyo Martin McDonagh, which sometimes works (3 Billboards) and often doesn’t, I actually think this would have worked better as a play but that’s by the by. A thin plot made engaging by the lead performances – particularly from Farrell who, against the usual typecasting, plays an enjoyably gormless ‘nice’ lad, Padraig. Two close friends on the Craggy Island-esque Inisherin fall out over…

I have a lifelong season ticket for anything Cate Blanchett is involved in, so I’ll get my undying bias towards her OUTTA THE WAY first. A lot to unpack from this film, and yeah, it’s about cancel culture and abuse of power to some degree, but I think there’s a lot more subtlety and surrealism to Tar than it’s been given credit (and criticism) for. If anything, it’s really about an utterly conceited artist in emotional and creative decline –…

I think plenty has been written about Glazer’s most recent and very impressive technical achievement with The Zone of Interest which we probably don’t need to touch upon too much – but I do think it’s got some of the best sound design I’ve ever heard in a film, it’s pretty much the main character in a rather removed and quite dreary film in parts. There’s lazy comparisons with him and Kubrick, but I’d say it’s taking more of a…