Our resident critic Robert Chandler gives us his perspective on the latest entertaintment from the big and small screen.
JOKER is here and it is terrific. Although set provisionally in Gotham in 1981, it is New York that is evoked. It made me nostalgic for the great, pre-clean-up NY films of the late 1970s; there are scenes that look and smell like they just spilled out of THE WARRIORS or DEATH WISH…
Read MoreREADY OR NOT is a perfect film, a blend of horror and black comedy. It’s based on a great premise - one you would greenlight if somebody pitched it to you and then hope the film-makers delivered.
Read MorePedro Almodóvar's DOLOR Y GLORIA is slow and contemplative and beautiful. Things happen which, in other Almodóvar films might have led to flights of fancy or colourful exploration, but here, in this reflective film about Almodóvar's own life and childhood, are allowed to go unremarked upon in pursuit of something greater... essentially the sadness and the majesty of life.
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