Working my way back through each Best Picture winner and ranking them was always going to be a difficult task but even I wasn’t expecting it to be this challenging. For this post, I will be looking at films from the 2000s. It was during this decade that I started to pay close attention to… Read More Academy Award Best Picture Ranking: the 2000s
Paul Thomas Anderson is known for his experimental and fearless quest into exploring characters in ways that are unflinching and at times, uncomfortable. He isn’t afraid to delve into the psyche of a character and make them unlikeable. In fact, Anderson tends to thrive on the flaws of a character for example Daniel Plainview in… Read More Paul Thomas Anderson: Film Ranking
Based on the Edward Albee stageplay of the same name and marking Mike Nichols’ directorial debut, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? follows older couple, Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) and George (Richard Burton) as the cracks in their relationship between to crack and crumble with the arrival of newlywed couple Nick (George Segal) and Honey (Sandy Dennis).… Read More Favourite Films: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
When watching Dario Argento’s horror classic Suspiria (1977) and its thematic sequel Inferno (1980), it’s understandable that the mind would instantly capture the bright cinematography and bloody violence that occurs throughout the film. What Argento doesn’t receive credit for, however, is the portrayal of its female protagonists, Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) and Rose Elliot (Irene Miracle). Both characters are… Read More Unpicking the Witch: Suzy and Rose in Retrospect
Another film that I watched on a whim on BFI player is one that has been on my list for years. Scanners is a sci-fi horror directed and written by David Cronenberg and follows a sub-species of humans called Scanners, people who can control others with their minds. When one Scanner, Daryl Revok (Michael Ironside),… Read More Scanners (1981)
Undoubtedly the man of the moment in the film that has the festival circuit buzzing, Joaquin Phoenix is the frontrunner for awards for his titular performance in Todd Phillips’ origin story Joker. During a film climate that seems dominated by superhero films, Joker seems like it is doing something entirely different by twisting the tone… Read More Top 5 Joaquin Phoenix Performances
After writing my post on Leonardo DiCaprio (which you can read here), it only makes sense to follow this on with a post on his most famous co-star, Kate Winslet. Following a meteoric rise during the 1990s, she also was nominated for a ton of Academy Awards before finally landing one in 2008. Her extensive… Read More Top 5 Kate Winslet Performances
