Continue reading →Mendes focuses on drama, character, and nostalgia in this confidently-mounted Bond film that is also arguably one of the most beautifully shot (by Roger Deakins, no less) in the entire history of the franchise.
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Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
Theologically offensive on almost every level, but its wildly provocative (and hilarious) scenarios have a disarming charm to them in this excellent religious satire.
Green Zone (2010)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The film that started it all, in this brilliant absurd brand of comedy and satire.
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Continue reading →Blessed with an exceptional performance by Emily Watson, von Trier’s complex if disturbing take on religion and sex asks of us to have faith in his vision.
United 93 (2006)
Arguably the most riveting, suspenseful and emotional thriller of the 2000s decade, one that you already know the ending to.
Favourite, The (2018)
Continue reading →By turns visually ravishing and psychologically perverse, this salacious and morbidly hilarious period drama strangely doesn’t quite amount to anything significant.
Killing of a Sacred Deer, The (2017)
Continue reading →Absurdist cinema taken to the extreme, Greek provocateur Yorgos Lanthimos delivers a harrowing work that is clinical in execution in more ways than one.
Lobster, The (2015)
Continue reading →Bizarre is the word from the latest by Lanthimos, whose uneven English-language debut intrigues and wanes in what is a morbid if deadpan comedy about loneliness and companionship.
Annihilation (2018)
Continue reading →A different kind of measured, mainstream sci-fi that is almost like its thematic preoccupation—that of mutability where there is just enough change to enthrall and thrills to excite.
Eternality Tan 