Cerebral… Movie #183 2020: Cube (1997) 31 May 202028 May 2020 You know the sadistic joy you get from watching movies like Saw and Scream? That's exactly what this movie is. With very little context, Cube begins with a group of…
Drama… Movie #174 2020: The Farewell (2019) 27 May 202024 May 2020 Off the back of her radio story What You Don't Know, Lulu Wang brings us its film adaptation, titled The Farewell. Semi-autobiographical in nature, The Farewell is a deep insight…
Cerebral… Movie #162 2020: Under the Skin (2013) 20 May 202017 May 2020 Who the hell thought of this? Whoever it was, I found it more interesting that I could ever have expected to. Under the Skin marks Jonathan Glazer's third full length…
Drama… Movie #161 2020: Audition (1999) 20 May 20201 Nov 2021 Before going into this, I was under the assumption that it was a horror film. Well, this ain't a horror, this is a weird, psycho-thriller with a horrific ending. Audition…
Drama… Movie #157 2020: Hunt For The Wilderpeople (2016) 18 May 202014 May 2020 Taika Waititi is quickly becoming one of the world's best current directors, and that's a fact. Before the phenomenal Hollywood success of his blockbusters Thor: Ragnarok and Jojo Rabbit came…
Coming of Age… Movie #155 2020: The Half of It (2020) 17 May 202013 May 2020 The Half Of It is doing relatively well on Netflix and in critics' circles currently. Why? Because we are all starved of new content, obviously. No cinemas, no new production…
Coming of Age… Movie #148 2020: Mustang (2015) 13 May 202010 May 2020 MUBI strikes once again. I enjoyed Bacurau so much that I thought I'd give MUBI another chance to impress me with an international movie. And boy, did they succeed. Mustang…
Art House… Movie #142 2020: Thoroughbreds (2017) 10 May 20207 May 2020 I wasn't sure what I was expecting from this movie. To be honest, all I knew was that it had a really colourful poster, and that every man and his…
Coming of Age… Movie #136 2020: Mistress America (2015) 7 May 20205 May 2020 Baumbach, Baumbach, Baumach. I'm sure you're getting bored with my constant hard-on for him, so I'll keep this as brief as possible. I couldn't resist, what you gonna do about…
Art House… Movie #126 2020: High Life (2018) 2 May 202030 Apr 2020 Back to the immersion into MUBI now, with a high concept, science fiction space horror from director Claire Denis. High Life tells the gripping tale of a group of death…
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