It’s easy to see why others have compared Lantana to Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (a film of which, full disclosure, I am a big fan)… First off, there’s the fact that they’re both named after native flowers of their setting. Then there’s the small matter of the virtually identical title treatment – which was surely…

I feel alive again. Thank you, Mubi. I’ve felt increasingly detached from cinema in recent times. Yet I had a yearning to experience more films, better films, films that made me think, films that made me feel, arthouse films, foreign films. And I found it. Mubi is cinematic nirvana. Over the past couple of weeks,…

I gotta give props to Fox. While Marvel continues to crank out insipid, formulaic comic book movies, and Warners continues to struggle to get their Justice League universe off the ground (which, for the record I really want to enjoy – but so far, so disappointing), Fox is taking bold risks. And they’re paying off…

Chances are, when you think of North Korea, particularly in today’s political climate, you don’t think of art, or of beauty. But just because the hermit nation is a country of brainwashed saps (as any of your Fox News-watching friends will gladly tell you without a trace of irony) it doesn’t mean they’re incapable of…

I am a writer. It sounds so pompous, doesn’t it? Whenever I hear those words, even in my own head, I think immediately of Rip Torn’s bombastically pretentious delivery of that very phrase in Wonder Boys. So let’s dispel the sense of arrogance immediately with the story of how, when I was 15 or 16,…