Cerebral… Movie #128 2021: Room 237 (2012) 15 May 202111 May 2021 Everyone knows Stanley Kubrick adapted The Shining into a movie. Many people know that the author of the original book (Stephen King) despised that movie. I'm one of those people…
Cerebral… Movie #122 2021: The Hunt (2012) 9 May 20213 May 2021 Whatever you do, don’t confuse this movie with the Craig Zobel movie The Hunt from 2020, because it could not be more different. This is not an American dystopian action…
Cerebral… Movie #105 2021: Gattaca (1997) 22 Apr 20213 Apr 2021 Every year I write a ‘to watch’ list in my trusty Moleskine®, and every year some films seem to still be on the list. This is one of those films.…
Art House… Movie #101 2021: She Dies Tomorrow (2020) 18 Apr 202131 Mar 2021 I meaaaaaan... what the fuck was that? Am I too stupid to understand the point of this movie or is it just a massive load of nonsense? She Dies Tomorrow…
Art House… Movie #86 2021: Unsane (2018) 3 Apr 202112 Mar 2021 Well that was an extremely disturbing episode of The Office... Starring Her Majesty the Queen herself, Claire Foy, and directed by none other than Steven Soderbergh, Unsane is a pure, out…
Action… Movie #366 2020: Tenet (2020) 31 Dec 202030 Dec 2020 Here it is: the only blockbuster of the entire year to be released in cinemas. And what a risk that was. Although it only made a 'modest' $162 million in…
Art House… Movie #350 2020: Her (2013) 15 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 Her has been on my watch list for so long... and I finally got round to it! Maybe 2020 isn't so bad after all. Spike Jonze directs in this futuristic…
Art House… Movie #348 2020: Ema (2019) 13 Dec 202029 Dec 2020 It feels like a while since there's been a weird indie movie on The Quayside Review. It also feels like a while since there's been something one would categorise as…
Cerebral… Movie #343 2020: mother! (2017) 8 Dec 20204 Dec 2020 Darren Aronofsky! Requiem For A Dream is one of my favourite films, and Black Swan was pretty great. So this must be pretty similar, right?........ Right?! This movie has excellent performances, a chilling score,…
Art House… Movie #328 2020: No Country For Old Men (2007) 25 Nov 202023 Nov 2020 There's a reason behind the fact that I've never watched this movie before, but we'll get onto that later. The real question is... Is this the best Coen Brothers movie…
