Renowned director Guillermo del Toro’s latest, The Shape of Water gets its first trailer, bringing with it the fantasy elements the director is known for.
In the lead up to the 10th anniversary of There Will Be Blood (2007), now seems like an appropriate time to revisit other Revisionist Western films that have held up well, trying to reach the same great heights in more recent years.
The Room (2003) is one of the worst things ever to have been put to film – The Disaster Artist is a film about the making of that film.
Every director has to start somewhere, and the Janks Review Crew have compiled a list of 8 great first films from established and emerging directors for your reading pleasure.
The blockbuster dominates the multiplex, yet these smaller, arguably better films often get overlooked – here’s 5 you can overcome blockbuster fatigue with.
Sofia Coppola’s remake of the 1971 film The Beguiled, is a thrilling ride through the emotional spectrum of jealousy, with outstanding performances.
Silent films are often given a wonky reputation by modern cinema buffs. Whenever we think of the genre, we immediately conjure up images of clownish-looking performers behaving like mimes having a seizure, or production designs and direction that are so unnatural and dated that you can’t help but laugh, or roll your eyes at its unintentional silliness. By today’s standards, silent films are looked down upon as a dead genre, only ever being acknowledged during academic studies or analytical mockery. The cinema fans of today rarely warm up to classic cinema the same way they would warm up to Deadpool (2016) or Moonlight (2016).
Hugh Jackman stars as P.T. Barnum, the man who invented ‘show business’ in this upcoming musical by Australian director Michael Gracey.
Based on the Tony-winning stage play Blackbird, Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn face off in Una, the disturbing story of a child-abuse victim confronting the man who took advantage of her.
Shimmer Lake is one of the newest additions to the ever growing list of Netflix Original films, and can be described as a dark, comedic crime-thriller. Thankfully, the information that Netflix provides for its viewers prior to watching states that the film is in reverse, otherwise I would have been more lost than I already found myself throughout this film.
Dare I say First Girl I Loved is a near perfect blend of Andrea Arnold’s Fishtank meets Blue Is The Warmest Color? Dare I say it’s even better? As I lay in my puddle of confused emotions, I confidently shout “yes”, and once you see it I dare you to defy it.
The history of cinema has known many great adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare. 1948 brought us the big screen version of Hamlet; 1968 brought us Romeo and Juliet; 1989 gave us Henry V; and now, it is time for us to welcome the latest great Shakespearean feature film, that most definitely deserves to be given as much popularity as the mentioned adaptions of the past – 2011’s Coriolanus!
Check out the second trailer for the upcoming drama film Detroit by acclaimed director Kathryn Bigelow, starring John Boyega.
Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars in the independent prison-themed crime-thriller Shot Caller, and it looks super-intense.
The eighth film from director David Fincher has three stories interwoven both at pivotal but different points in time, based on the creation of the social network site Facebook.
