Mastering a foreign accent is an incredibly difficult challenge, and when actors pull it off the results can me tremendous. Meryl Streep’s Polish accent in Sophie’s Choice and Don Cheadle’s Rwandan accent in “Hotel Rwanda” come to mind as excellent examples of fake accents done right, and both actors got well-earned critical acclaim for their […]
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5 Reasons Why “The Third Man” Is The Best British Movie of All Time
You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo […]
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7 Reasons Why “Barry Lyndon“ Is Stanley Kubrick’s Overlooked Masterpiece
When it comes to discussing the best films directed by Stanley Kubrick, the debate usually centres around the relative merits of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, The Killing or Paths Of Glory. Whilst these are all great films, the critical consensus surrounding them is already set in stone. Naturally, […]
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6 Reasons Why “Lawrence of Arabia” is The Best Epic Movie of All Time
If you are the man with the money and somebody comes to you and says he wants to make a film that’s four hours long, with no stars, and no women, and no love story, and not much action either, and he wants to spend a huge amount of money to go film it in […]
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8 Reasons Why “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is Wes Anderson’s Best Movie
Gossamer-like, lovely and wistful, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) thrums with the dual dispositions of the sublime Golden Age director Ernst Lubitsch and the jam-packed chapter and verse of Stefan Zweig. In this calorie-rich and joyously effete film from writer-director Wes Anderson one will find his most exhaustive and exuberant picture to date. The Grand […]
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7 Reasons Why “Moonlight” Deserved Oscar Best Picture More Than “La La Land”
Like many cynical cineasts, I have a rather conflicting relationship with the Oscars. On the one hand, it can be nice seeing your favorite filmmaker win, and if you have an innate fascination with the Hollywood establishment to begin with, it’s essential viewing. But on the other hand, you know none of it really matters. […]